Impact

We're proud of the impact we've achieved over the past 30 years. The Centre has been instrumental in raising national and international awareness of the importance of early childhood development. This has had a significant influence on government policies and legislation. 

We've brought major innovations to the Australian child and family research and implementation context, many of them world-leading.

Our success derives from a commitment to grounding our work in evidence, a constant striving for excellence and strong, trusting relationships with our partners and stakeholders.

Innovations 

We've brought innovations to scale including:

Impact

We have an ambitious plan to target six key areas for change. Our research and knowledge of the factors that influence children's development indicate that investing our efforts in these six priority areas will result in the greatest improvements to child and family outcomes.

Inequities in children's health and development are differential outcomes that are unjust and preventable. From conception, children in Australia do not start on a level playing field. One of the factors that contributes to and perpetuates this inequity is the lack of access many Australian families have to high quality services and supports. To achieve equity, families must be able to access the services and supports they need, when they are needed, and at a quality that will make a difference. Our team is working on a number of exciting initiatives that seek to redress inequity.

Optimising health and wellbeing outcomes for all children to address the unjust and preventable differential outcomes in children’s health and development.

Enabling support for parents and carers through formal and informal networks and the provision of evidence-based information.

Working with communities to transform physical environments, supports, services and facilities to achieve better outcomes for children and families.

Developing cross-sectoral initiatives that recognise the inter‑relationship between health, social-emotional wellbeing and educational outcomes.

Driving awareness and action on child mental health through a prevention and early intervention agenda.