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Best Start Fact sheet
1. EARLY CHILDHOOD FACT SHEET:
Best Start
WHAT IS BEST START?
The first years of life are crucial to lifelong learning,
wellbeing and success. The Andrews Labor Government is
making Victoria the Education State and this begins with
giving every child a great start in life by strengthening early
childhood services for children and families.
Best Start is a prevention and early intervention program
that aims to improve the health, development, learning and
wellbeing of all Victorian children from conception through
to transition to school (up to eight years old).
There is consensus that a loving, healthy and intellectually
stimulating early childhood is critical to a person’s
wellbeing and success throughout their life. Children who
have a strong start in life are more likely to do well
academically and socially as they grow older. Conversely,
young children who miss out on positive experiences with
parents, caregivers and educators are much more likely to
have to struggle to catch up.
Best Start is characterised by an approach that supports
parents and caregivers to create a positive environment for
children by encouraging communities to work with their
local early years services and schools.
Communities and service providers collaborate to address
issues as they are experienced at a neighbourhood or
regional level.
This localised, targeted way of finding solutions to
problems faced by families has been shown to be
extremely effective. Efforts are focused on boosting
children’s participation in the programs we know have the
best results for setting them up for success, such as
kindergarten and maternal and child health (MCH)
services. The program also puts in place prevention
strategies, such as providing referral pathways when
targeted supports are required.
Victoria has a strong early childhood system with high
participation rates in MCH services and kindergarten –
however some children are missing out. Typically, these
are children who are experiencing vulnerability and have
the most to gain from engaging in high-quality services.
The Best Start program operates in 30 locations across
Victoria. There are 24 mainstream sites and six Aboriginal
Best Start sites in rural and metropolitan locations.
It is based on formal partnerships of local agencies and
service providers to improve the outcomes for children.
Best Start – improving local support for families
2. EARLY CHILDHOOD FACT SHEET:
Best Start
ABORIGINAL BEST START
The Aboriginal Best Start projects have been established
to ensure that local Aboriginal communities and
organisations are given every possible opportunity to
support positive outcomes for their children and families.
The Aboriginal Best Start sites are operated by Aboriginal
organisations in Horsham; La Trobe and Baw Baw;
Wathaurong-Geelong; Echuca; and Dandenong-Casey.
The East Gippsland Aboriginal Best Start site is operated
by East Gippsland Shire.
WHY IS BEST START CHANGING?
In 2015, the Department of Education and Training
conducted a comprehensive review of Best Start with the
aim of updating the project in light of the latest research
and policy developments.
The review identified a number of priorities to ensure that
Best Start remains an effective program for supporting
families, including the need for:
clearer, more measurable and more evidence-based
strategies and actions
a strengthened focus on boosting the participation of
all Aboriginal children and children experiencing
vulnerability in key universal and targeted services, in
particular in kindergarten, maternal and child health
services and supported playgroups; and
improved monitoring, data collection and reporting.
The review has led to the development of a set of new Best
Start guidelines.
WHAT HAS CHANGED?
The new guidelines set out four new priorities. These
replace the 15 indicators in the previous guidelines.
The new outcomes have a sharper focus than the previous
15 indicators, and emphasise a child’s holistic growth,
including their learning, health and development. There is
also a greater focus on ways to improve and tailor the
service for families and children experiencing significant
challenges.
Best Start Outcomes
Primary Children engage and participate in early childhood
education (kindergarten and supported playgroups).
Children and families actively engage with MCH
services, attending key ages and stages visits.
Optional Children acquire literacy and numeracy skills through
active participation in their education.
Early childhood services provide an engaging and
high-quality environment for children and families
experiencing vulnerability.
The new approach is also centered on monitoring and
reporting. An evaluation of the Best Start program
highlighted the need for clearer, more measurable and
more evidence-based strategies and actions.
The new approach provides Best Start partnerships with
evidence-based strategies and actions to deliver
measurable benefits for young children.
Best Start Partnerships will now use rapid action-reflection
‘Plan, Do, Study, Act’ cycles. The cycle tests an idea by
temporarily trialing a change and assessing its immediate
impact.
HOW WILL THE NEW APPROACH BE IMPLEMENTED?
The approach will commence from 1 July 2016. Training
and support to Best Start sites has already commenced
and will continue throughout 2016 and into 2017.
Improved data collection and reporting will assist local
communities, service providers and Government to track
and regularly monitor the progress towards the outcomes.
WHAT SUPPORT WILL BE PROVIDED?
The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute’s Centre for
Community Child Health will deliver training and support to
Best Start Facilitators to assist all Best Start Partnerships
implement the new approach. This will include a focus on
building local capacity to understand and apply data from a
range to sources to plan and implement effective strategies
to improve children’s learning and development outcomes.