{"id":412,"date":"2012-05-07T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=412"},"modified":"2012-05-07T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:09:29","slug":"schools-stagger-under-young-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2012\/05\/07\/schools-stagger-under-young-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools stagger under young burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Community Child Health&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/media.cfm?doc_id=10968\">Dr Sharon Goldfeld<\/a> says &#8220;Schools are wilting under the burden of trying to help almost 47,000 children starting prep with behavioural and other developmental problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an article in The Age, Dr Goldfeld, who is the national director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/aedi\/index.cfm?doc_id=13051\">Australian Early Development Index<\/a> (AEDI), says Australia&#8217;s school system is unable to cope with the 18 per cent of children starting school who have been identified by classroom teachers as having a serious problem that interferes with their learning.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in The Age (Monday 7 May 2012) &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/education\/schools-stagger-under-young-burden-20120504-1y43c.html\"> Schools stagger under young burden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s health needs and the importance of reducing health inequalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}