Centre Director Professor Frank Oberklaid’s blog post on improving the children’s long term outcomes has recently featured on Open Forum.

In the post, he says “There is a social gradient for poor school readiness; children from disadvantaged families and communities have a significantly increased rate of problems. This can be explained by the science of brain development. A robust body of research points to the importance of the early years in establishing the trajectory for life long outcomes.”

Read the full blog post Better educational outcomes: Start early.

More information:

• Watch the online forum: Putting a value on early childhood education and care in Australia
• Read the latest Policy Brief: The future of early childhood education and care services in Australia
• Watch Brain Builders, an animation explaining the science behind early brain development.