This study is of the provision of career education, health education, personal development and student development programs for students from Years 7 to 10 in ACT high schools. The purpose was to discover why these programs are not available to all students and what can be done to make them available. The methods used were an examination of a longitudinal case study of 'Bellbird' High School in parallel with a survey of the current system perspective. Three surveys at 'Bellbird' High School were designed to determine the attitudes of students, parents and teachers to aspects of the curriculum. They provided both quantitative and qualitative data.