Vision & Purpose
Our vision is of an early childhood system that delivers quality and access for families and supports children’s agency and voice, early development, and future outcomes.
We believe in matching the quality of our nation’s early childhood system with the high expectations we hold for all children. We want all families to have the opportunity to thrive, regardless of the challenges they face.
The Front Project works systematically to develop evidence-based, meaningful, and pragmatic policy solutions that create deep, sustained, and long-term change for greater impact.
We believe an Australia that addresses disadvantage through early education will equal successful young people, a happier society, and a stronger economy.
Our Purpose and Approach
We aim to build systems that support warm, reciprocal relationships as the foundation of early learning and healthy child development.
Current system settings, including narratives around ‘child minding’ and the marketisation of ECEC service delivery, drive toward a transactional approach to early learning and undermine the ability of services to support high quality, reciprocal relationships.
To achieve this purpose, we target a range of system settings, including policy settings, industrial conditions, and funding models that could positively influence the ability of professionals to build high quality, positive relationships with children and families.