{"id":4902,"date":"2023-02-14T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:34:02","slug":"the-benefits-of-investing-in-the-early-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2023\/02\/14\/the-benefits-of-investing-in-the-early-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of investing in the early years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Play2Learn+ is a Tasmanian early years service model designed to help children and families experiencing vulnerability to regularly attend preschool programs in the two years before starting school, and build carers capacity to support children\u2019s learning and development.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/Tas_play_to_learn\/\">Learn more about Play2Learn+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is based on the evidence that attending high-quality preschool improves children\u2019s school readiness, and that two years of preschool are better than one.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Community Health was commissioned by the Department of Social Services to examine the evidence on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the long-term impacts of school readiness on children\u2019s health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>the key elements (or theory of change) of the Play2Learn+ program<\/li>\n<li>the cost-benefits of investments in early years services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedFiles\/Main\/Content\/ccchdev\/2212_CCCH_TAS-Play2Learn.pdf\">Tasmanian Play2Learn+ Trial: Evidence Review (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/uploadedFiles\/Main\/Content\/ccchdev\/2212_CCCH_valuing-ece.pdf\">Summary of the benefits of investing in the early years (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2023\/02\/benefits_early-years-investments_800\u00d7650px-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4904\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2023\/02\/benefits_early-years-investments_800\u00d7650px-1.png\" alt=\"Benefits of investing in the early years infographic\" width=\"800\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2023\/02\/benefits_early-years-investments_800\u00d7650px-1.png 800w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2023\/02\/benefits_early-years-investments_800\u00d7650px-1-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2023\/02\/benefits_early-years-investments_800\u00d7650px-1-768x624.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Tasmanian Play2Learn+ Trial: Evidence review (2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access a summary paper outlining the enduring benefits of the early years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":4903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971],"tags":[27007,26959,27006],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-commonwealth-early-years-strategy","tag-early-childhood-services","tag-early-years"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","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=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}