• • • • • • that children and their parents are properly informed about the possible side effects of this medical treatment and about non-medical alternatives increase the availability of online mental health services and web-based counselling, while making in-person mental health services child-friendly and accessible to children, including those under 14 years, throughout Australia strengthen its measures to prevent teenage pregnancies among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders girls, including by providing culturally sensitive and confidential medical advice and services provide children with education on sexual and reproductive health as part of the mandatory school curriculum, with special attention on preventing early pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections ensure that children’s views are taken into account in developing policies and programmes addressing climate change, the environment and disaster risk management, and increase children’s awareness and preparedness for climate change and natural disasters promptly take measures to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases, establishing targets and deadlines to phase out the domestic use of coal and its export, and accelerate the transition to renewable energy address the high rates of homelessness among children, particularly focusing on children leaving alternative care, and include children under 12 years in the Reconnect program. Education, leisure and cultural activities: • address the shortcomings of the Closing the Gap measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, to reach the targets on school attendance, retention rates, literacy and numeracy standards, paying particular attention to remote areas, and invest in teachers’ cultural competency of these communities’ history • strengthen investments in improving early childhood education, and primary and secondary levels, paying particular attention to children living in remote areas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, children with disabilities, children in marginalised and disadvantaged situations, children in alternative care and children from refugee and migrant backgrounds • ensure that all children with disabilities have access to inclusive education, are provided with the support needed, and address cases of restraint and seclusion • strengthen the school-based Respectful Relationships initiative to promote gender equality and respect • intensify its efforts to prevent and address bullying in schools, including online bullying, through the eSafety Commissioner and provide support to child victims, in particular LGBTI children. 47