Policy and Program Perspective

Nexus Seminar for Early Childhood Educators and

Family Support Practitioners

Penny Creamer Director, Children & Family Programs

Early Childhood Education and Care

Department of Education and Training

10 October 2015

8% children from Aboriginal

and/or Torres Strait Islander descent

570,000+

Early Childhood in Queensland

In 2012 26.2% Queensland children assessed as developmentally vulnerable on one or more

AEDC domains

ECEC Services

• Long Day Care

• Kindergarten

• Outside School Hours Care

• Limited Hours Care

• Family Day Care

• Vacation Care

• eKindy

200,000+children aged 0 to 5

are enrolled in

2855 approved ECEC

services

Early Childhood Education and Care

A shared responsibility among families, and education, health and family

services, and includes community-based approaches. Multi / trans-

disciplinary by nature.

Early Childhood Development

Home

School

Community

Family

Child

Regulated ECEC

Early years of schooling

Long Day Care

Family Day Care

Limited Hours Care

Kindy

Prep to year 3

Outside school hours careEC

EC s

erv

ices

Ages 4 5 0 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Integrated services

Family Support services

Collective Impact

Child focused activities

Subsidies and grants

New Early Years Services

Early Years Centres

Children and Family Centres

Range of family support services e.g. Parentline, Remote Area Family Support, Health and Wellbeing

Intensive ECD Support trial

Platforms trial sites

Child and Family Support Hubs

Playgroups

E.g. Disability Support Funding, capital grants

Earl

y ye

ars

serv

ices

.

Tertiary

Secondary

UniversalPlaygroups

Approved servicesSchools

Early Childhood Development –

Levels of Intervention

Children and

Family Centres

Child and Family Hubs

Early Years

Centres

Family support

Integrated Services

Integrated Early

Childhood

Development

Services

Hubs

25Coordination and

Collaboration of ECD

Services

EYCs

14

Services

Special

ists

ECEC

4

CFCsServices

10

Parent &

Fam

Support

Child

Health

Child

Health

Parent

& Fam

Support

ECEC

Speciali

sts

Cairns, Doomadgee, Ipswich,

Logan, Mackay, Mareeba,

Mornington Island, Mount Isa,

Palm Island, Rockhampton

North Gold Coast,

Caboolture,

Browns Plains, Cairns

Deliver or broker universal services and

targeted services, referrals, multidisciplinary

staff, multi-modal delivery, culturally relevant,

community development and capacity

building focus, partnerships.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families,

multidisciplinary staff, culturally relevant

approaches, capacity building focus.

10

Satellites in

neighbouring

communities

Child

Family

Services

Community

• Long Day Care

• Kindergarten

• Pre-Kindy and Families Programs

• Baby health clinics

• Breast feeding advice

• Immunisations

• Child development support

• Health screening and

assessments

• Ante and post natal screening

• Financial assistance and advice

• Referral to specialist advice

services

• Access to individual case

workers

• Transport assistance

• Emotional support programs

• Playgroup

• Outreach and home visiting

• In-home or in-centre counselling

• Enrolment support

• Toy libraries

• Cooking classes

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Specialised services

Early childhood education Family support programs

Child and maternal health

Integrated services

Family Support – Intensive ECD

Support Program trial

Intensive ECD Support ProgramsDET-funded

Support transition to ECEC services

Therapeutic

ECEC

Intensive

Supported

Playgroups

Home

visitingParenting

Programs

Led by an

Early

Childhood

Teachersuch as

Intensive Family Support, Targeted Family Support,

Therapeutic Counselling ServicesDCCSDS-funded

receiving

Families experiencing multiple & complex issues

where appropriate

Support for ECEC Educators - Early Years

Connect

http://earlyyearsconnect.com.au/

Early Years Services – Family Support

ARC Family Support

Supported playgroups

Child and Family

Support

Parentline

Remote Area Family

Support

Early Years Health &

Wellbeing

Intensive ECD Support

What’s next? Opportunities

• Platforms collective impact project

– How to build on learnings from trial sites?

• New integrated Early Years Services

– Purpose-built, access to ECEC, wrap-around

health, parenting and family support

• Early Years Connect

– Building the capability of educators

• Results Based Accountability

– Consistent, effective measures

across all funded services, to ‘turn the

curve’ on early childhood outcomes

Thank you

Any questions?