The federal government has released its 10-year plan to give children the best start in life. Children aged between zero and five years of age is the focus of the national strategy.
The product of 18 months of work, Australia's first national strategy on the early childhood years puts the focus on children aged between zero and five."More than one million neural connections are formed in our brains each second in those critical first early years of life. A pace never, ever to be repeated again. So if we can get it right in the early years, we have the opportunity to prevent so many issues down the track. And that is why this strategy is so important.
Overseeing the strategy's development will be a new Parents and Carers Reference Group to ensure they can provide direct feedback. Early Childhood Education Minister Anne Aly says a key aspect for her in the strategy is the approach of tackling entrenched disadvantage. The acting CEO for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Roslyn Dundas, says she wants to see no time wasted in moving to the implementation stage.
Trawlwoolway woman Catherine Chamberlain is Professor of Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne. "So we saw in the most recent Productivity Commission report even we've already got rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait is children that are more than 10 times the number of non-indigenous children in out-of-home care. And these are rates that are getting worse, not better. So we really need a huge focus to be able to turn those trajectories around, so that the numbers of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care can start to go down.
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