In 2018, Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network Australia (MYAN) and the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (VFST) (Foundation House) established the National Education Roundtable to address an identified gap in national structures to facilitate discussion and inform policy and programming in relation to education for children and young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, particularly in school settings.
The National Education Roundtable brings together a national, cross-sector group to meet regularly to discuss how primary and secondary school students from refugee and migrant backgrounds are faring and how schools can best support them to achieve their potential. A Steering Group oversees this work, comprised
of representatives from states and territories, academia, policy, and settlement services.