Almost 47,000 children start prep with behavioural and other developmental problems. Dr Sharon Goldfeld spoke to The Age about the burden on schools to address children’s health needs and the importance of reducing health inequalities.
An article in the Herald Sun is encouraging parents to follow the advice of the Raising Children Network and read to their babies from an early age.
An article on the importance of children’s first years of life has been published in The Australian. In the article, director of the Centre for Community Child Health, Professor Frank Oberklaid says, ‘We know absolutely that learning starts at birth.”
The Victorian State Government has announced further funding to continue state-wide infant hearing screening program.
A study on parent perceptions of child obesity has been published in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity.The CCCH’s Professor Melissa Wake spoke to the media about the study’s finding.
