How We Work
The Front Project works across the early learning system, connecting with people who can potentially effect change and remove barriers which disadvantage children and families.
A systems change approach which looks at the big picture to find out what we can do to ensure our ECEC system becomes the best it can be today and for generations to come.
To ensure that ECEC plays a critical role in early childhood development, we will focus on a mix of short and long-term leverage points that will help move the system closer to a ‘human’ system.
For short term outcomes, we prioritise influencing key decision makers (politicians, bureaucrats, across different levels of government and different portfolios), and support the holding together of the alliances that makes this ‘unfrozen moment’ possible. For longer-term outcomes, we support and amplify those coalitions who will continue the long and patient work of building toward the system we wish to see.
Strategic Objectives and Focus Areas
- Focus 1
Using our expertise and credibility to make the implicit problem with a transactional ECEC system visible, and providing a way of imagining solutions, for decision makers at this critical moment.
- Focus 2
Shoring up the ‘unfrozen moment’, by using our relationships and expertise to bring key players in ECEC back to continue to work together on the things that they agree on, even while there is conflict about next steps.
- Focus 3
Support and amplifying those coalitions in the field whose work will drive towards the system we want in the longer term.
Our Supporters
Our important work is made possible by funding from the Paul Ramsay Foundation, which is committed to breaking cycles of disadvantage by investing in partnerships with organisations that share this vision.
The Foundation’s support of the Front Project reflects our shared goal of helping young Australians overcome barriers to high-quality early childhood education and lift themselves out of cycles of disadvantage. We do this through direct work with educators and collaboration with industry, business and community leaders.
The Fund achieves this by supporting programs and organisations that work to decrease developmental vulnerability and improve outcomes for children between birth and the age of eight.
