{"id":2755,"date":"2018-03-06T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:47:21","slug":"we-need-new-champions-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2018\/03\/06\/we-need-new-champions-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"New champions needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Frank Oberklaid spoke to the Educhange Podcast on 3 March 2018 about the importance of children&#8217;s early years and how we can all play a part in giving children the best start to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence about the years before a child starts formal schooling is now very robust, uncontested&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Oberklaid discussed his work at the interface between health and education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The health-education interfaced is really intertwined&#8230;you can&#8217;t have education without health and you can&#8217;t have health without education,&#8221; Professor Frank Oberklaid said.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on an increased investment in the early years, explaining the the earlier you invest, the greater the yield.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investing in early childhood is the best economic invention a country can make,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Oberklaid also explained that achieving change for children and families requires investment as well as data, evidence and relationships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/educhangepodcast.com\/episodes\/episode-15-frank-oberklaid\/\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast: Prof Frank Oberklaid on evidence surrounding children\u2019s first thousand days of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937,12010],"tags":[11949,5976,11952],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-staff","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-early-childhood-educators","tag-frank-oberklaid"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}