Promising Practice in Best Start series
November 2021 to June 2024
The Promising Practice in Best Start series captures what is being learnt through Best Start about how to use quality improvement to increase participation in early years services.
The series draws on insights from Best Start facilitators and is produced by the Centre for Community Child Health. The latest paper in the series explores how to ensure every child receives the benefits of kinder.
Best Start is a partnership between the Centre for Community Child Health at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Victorian Department of Education.
Promising Practice Papers
November 2021
Participation in early years services supports children’s healthy growth, development and wellbeing. Best Start partnerships use a quality improvement approach to increase participation in universal early years services.
January 2022
Participation in early years services supports children’s healthy growth, development and wellbeing. Best Start partnerships use an improvement science approach to increase participation in universal early years services.
March 2023
Participation in early years services supports children’s healthy growth, development and wellbeing. Best Start partnerships across Victoria use an improvement science approach to increase participation in universal early years services. This involves exploring the root causes of low participation, identifying possible solutions and then testing these through multiple Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles.
June 2024
Participation in quality kindergarten programs supports children’s development and wellbeing. It has been shown to improve literacy, numeracy and language skills, foster creativity, build capacity for problem solving and support social and emotional learning. Although policy reforms in Victoria support universal access to early childhood education, many children are still missing out.