{"id":3452,"date":"2019-10-10T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:59:16","slug":"optimising-early-childhood-and-family-support-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2019\/10\/10\/optimising-early-childhood-and-family-support-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimising early childhood and family support services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What types of programs and services deliver the greatest benefits to children and families? What would an ideal child and family support system look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Tim Moore\u2019s latest evidence synthesis explores these questions and informs the provision of children&#8217;s early years services and support for vulnerable families.<\/p>\n<p>The report was commissioned by the City of Port Phillip to inform its provision of early years services, especially for children from vulnerable families. It also serves as a helpful tool to guide governments, service providers and the early years sector on how to approach, invest in and configure early childhood services.<\/p>\n<p>The publication has collated and analysed the evidence on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the nature and importance of the early years and the factors that shape child and family functioning<\/li>\n<li>early childhood and parenting services, including antenatal and home visiting services, childcare, playgroups, toy libraries, and preschool education programs<\/li>\n<li>key features of effective early childhood, family support and health service systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The publication also poses considerations for the future development of early childhood, family support and health care services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedFiles\/Main\/Content\/ccchdev\/CCCH-City-of-Port-Phillip-Report.docx.pdf\">Access the full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Senior Research Fellow <a href=\"mailto:tim.moore@mcri.edu.au\">Dr Tim Moore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evidence synthesis informs the provision of children and family services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26516,5968],"tags":[23863,11949,5965,9507,11489],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-health-and-development-september","category-resources","tag-childcare","tag-early-childhood-development","tag-early-childhood-education-and-care","tag-families","tag-service-system-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}