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The Front Project welcomes the Centre for Policy Development's Growing Together report, which proposes 10 transformative reforms to create a truly inclusive and universal early education and care system for all children and families. Read more about the key reforms below -

📵The School Phone Ban Poll!📵 Share your voice! We'd love to hear from you and your tamariki and rangatahi on how the new "phones away for the day" policy is working! Share your thoughts on: 👉 what's working and what isn’t 👉 how it could be implemented in an inclusive and respectful way to meet the needs of students. Head to our education hub for a poll for students, teachers and whānau 👉 https://loom.ly/7bbHKCQ 📣The results from this poll will be compiled into a report to be shared with decision makers, students and educators. We will also put together a resource for teachers compiling the best tips and ideas for implementing the ban in a rights respecting way. ✌️ Did you know❓ Aotearoa New Zealand has ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to have their views heard on decisions that impact them! We think kids' voices deserve to be heard on this issue.

We have a tip for helping you provide culturally-safe care! 👇 ✅ When caring for First Nations, Inuit, Métis and urban Indigenous peoples, recognize that decision-making may involve the larger community. Read more tips for helping your students develop a culturally-safe practice in our textbooks HERE 👉 https://lnkd.in/gragveqR #palliativecare

We enjoyed this Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families article about the short & medium-term impacts of Sure Start programmes on children's lives. Research highlights ways to improve interventions for families, including adequately funded family support & long-term #evaluation. Read here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e5baYw_N

Just want to re-post my publication in Feb at Children and Youth Services Review (JCR Q1). For people who research young people with care experience, you may find this interesting DOI: https://lnkd.in/gFZW74dq

The Victorian government has just responded to recommendations from the latest inquiry into the experiences and outcomes for Victorian children and young people in out-of-home-care. Reading this report about their experiences in our public education systems we are heartened to see examples of amazing care, as well as confronted by the amount of work - too much work - still to do. All people involved in the care and education of these children must be supported to be trauma-responsive. These young ones have not always been kept safe. The two recommendations relating to trauma-informed training for educators and whole-of-school trauma-based approaches (13 and 14) have been accepted, and accepted in principle, respectively. At ThinkWell we know that we need to go further. Educators must have ongoing support to connect with and support these potential-filled young people who are the future of our communities. Training is not enough - ongoing coaching, practical assistance, and reflective practices are needed to protect against burnout and care for our educators. We are deeply invested in providing this at ThinkWell Consultancy.

Too often, the evidence we collect about families to use in policy and service development focuses on one or two types of family. We know that families in Australia are much more diverse than is considered in public debate and public policy. The Uniting Families Report is a new partnership between Uniting and UNSW Social Policy Research Centre, providing annual insights into the experiences of families raising children and young people in Australia. Better research and understanding of families will inform understanding and drive better policy reform. This report is a first step towards challenging the notion that all family experiences are the same and can be explored here: https://lnkd.in/gCxgf-s7

Following the parliamentary event we held yesterday on behalf of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children, we’re excited to launch a series of reports that dig a little deeper into some key areas of our work – including voice, inclusive education and systems change – and set out NCB’s unique evidence and experience and suggest some of the ways that we can go further and do better to achieving our mission to build a better childhood for every child. The reports build on our five-year strategy United for a Better Childhood: Building Brighter Futures, which we published in February. For over 60 years, NCB has united individuals and organisations across every area of children and young people’s lives, combining cutting-edge research with the voices of lived experience to improve the complex, interconnected systems that support the lives of children, young people and their families. "Building Brighter Futures: Amplifying children’s voice" outlines why the voices and experiences of children and young people have been and will continue to be at the heart of our work and shines a spotlight on recent successes. The report puts a spotlight on how we are amplifying children’s voice in politics, policy-making and evidence gathering and suggests a series of recommendations on how we can go further and do better to ensure that every child can thrive. Download and read the report here: https://buff.ly/3UGl9R6

"Serve and return" interactions are key to early development, shaping not just brain architecture but fostering lifelong curiosity and learning. The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University highlights how nurturing environments support both cognitive and emotional growth. Reading together amplifies these benefits by creating a unique shared experience that builds and strengthens relationships while fostering bonding. #ReadingTogether creates moments that are powerful tools for early childhood development and relationship building. #EarlyChildhoodDevelopment #Literacy #ServeAndReturn #ChildDevelopment #ReadingTogether #RaisingaReader

Today is World Children's Day. 20 November marks the date that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted in many countries, including Australia. Article 12 of the Convention states: ‘Children have the right to have a say on things that are important to them.’ With this in mind, the 2024 theme is ‘A Minute of Loudness’, encouraging children to share their ideas on how to make Australia an even better place for all children. We invite you to use this year’s World Children's Day theme as a prompt to think about how you can support children to develop their sense of agency and partner with them in practice. Courses in our Engaging children learning pathway offer core principles and skills on engaging children as partners in practice. By promoting their voices, children not only get a say in matters that affect their own lives, but they can benefit the lives of others through their valuable contributions to improving service design. https://bit.ly/3ly2s4i