BEST
START
Overview
Best Start aims to improve the health,
development, learning and well-being of all children
across Victoria from pregnancy through transition
to school (taken to be children 0-8 years of age).
Best Start will achieve this aim
through supporting communities, parents, families
and service providers to improve universal local early
years service systems. These improvements will:
result in better access to child
and family support, health services and early education
improve the capacity and confidence of parents to
be, parents and families to care for children and
help them to enjoy parenting
assist communities to become more child friendly.
This means that together we can give children the
best possible start for their future health, education
and social well-being.
Best Start is auspiced by the Department
of Human Services and the Department of Education
and Training and assisted by the Community Support
Fund.
To find out more about "Best Start" go
to http://www.beststart.vic.gov.au/demo_project/hume_facts.htm
Six Grade Prep students
from room 9 travelled down to the Broadmeadow Shopping
Centre to take part in a Prep Language Development
Program (PLDP) demonstration. Many people who were
at the shopping centre stopped to watch.
