{"id":1626,"date":"2015-05-25T07:13:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T07:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2015-05-25T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T07:30:21","slug":"prof-frank-oberklaid-features-on-the-abcs-conversation-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2015\/05\/25\/prof-frank-oberklaid-features-on-the-abcs-conversation-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Frank Oberklaid features on the ABC\u2019s Conversation Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in the earliest years of life builds a solid foundation for children\u2019s development and increases everyone\u2019s potential to contribute to society as productive adults.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, we are increasingly learning that programs that support children in the early years are the very best investments we can make as a country.<\/p>\n<p>This is because quality early childhood education and care programs have the power to amplify children&#8217;s development at a time when their brain development is most rapid.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent segment featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/audio\/2015\/05\/22\/4240787.htm\">ABC&#8217;s Conversation Hour<\/a>, Centre Director Professor Frank Oberklaid has called for &#8220;bipartisan commitment to the research that shows investment in early childhood is the best economic investment that any country can make\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/audio\/2015\/05\/22\/4240787.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the Federal Government\u2019s recently announced childcare package means for children and Australia\u2019s future prosperity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[5965,11952,8475],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-early-childhood-education-and-care","tag-frank-oberklaid","tag-quality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}