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The Early Years: Investing in our Future

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  • Rebecca Cassells

    (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin University)

  • Alfred Michael Dockery

    (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin University)

  • Alan S Duncan

    (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin University)

  • Daniel Kiely

    (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin Business School)

  • Michael Kirkness

    (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin Business School)

  • Chris Twomey

    (Western Australian Council of Social Service (WACOSS) and Bankwest Curtin Centre, Curtin Business School)

  • Toan Nguyen

    (Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University)

  • Richard Seymour
Abstract
This latest report in the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre’s Focus on Western Australia series, the thirteenth in this series, looks to add to our understanding of the lives of young children in Australia, the environment within which they live and learn, and the services provided to families to enable their children to thrive. The importance of the early years in influencing outcomes in later life has been well considered. What happens to a child in their first five years of life, their physical health, the connections they form, the resources they have access to and the early education and care they receive can have lasting impacts on their future outcomes. Despite this children are still entering the world and growing up in circumstances where they face significant disadvantage. The report’s findings offer a deeper understanding of the breadth, depth and drivers of disadvantage in the early years of a child’s life, the impact of disadvantage on child outcomes, and the reinforcing effects of inequities in access to financial, developmental and learning resources, with a new BCEC Early Learning Disadvantage Index highlighting the extent of inequality of early learning opportunities across Western Australia and Australia.

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  • Rebecca Cassells & Alfred Michael Dockery & Alan S Duncan & Daniel Kiely & Michael Kirkness & Chris Twomey & Toan Nguyen & Richard Seymour, 2020. "The Early Years: Investing in our Future," Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Report series FWA13, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School.
    • Handle: RePEc:ozl:bcecrs:fwa13
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    Cited by:

    1. Kate Sollis & Ben Edwards, 2022. "Measuring What Matters: Drawing on a Participatory Wellbeing Framework and Existing Data to Assess Child Wellbeing Outcomes Over Time," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 164(2), pages 543-599, November.

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    Keywords

    Western Australia; child development; child poverty; early learning disadvantage; regional disadvantage; early learning; child care; early years education;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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