Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth Peter Garrett has launched the 2012 AEDI results, providing Australia with a second snapshot of children’s development.
The release of the second AEDI dataset, collected in 2012, reveals a positive change in the proportion of Australian children developmentally vulnerable on one or more domains (from 23.6 per cent to 22 per cent) when compared with the 2009 AEDI results.
In 2012, AEDI Checklists were completed on 289,973 children in their first year of full-time formal school. This rich set of publicly available data will help governments, communities and early childhood educators to build a picture of children’s development and provide an evidence base to support policy, activities and strategic direction.