The Front Project supports the framing proposed by the Centre for Community Child Health that Thriving Kids comes down to three core elements: Uplift of mainstream health and education, local solutions with national guardrails, and enabling parents to understand and act. Mainstream universal systems need to have proportional responses embedded in their settings.
Child safety is the top priority in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Recent incidents have exposed critical failures in safeguarding children and have renewed the urgency for a system wide response that ensures every child is protected and supported.
Child safety isn’t just about regulation. It’s about the whole system—how it's structured, funded, and supported. Safe environments rely on quality services, a well-trained workforce, and enough funding to do the job well.
Wage justice for early childhood teachers and educators is an important and long overdue measure to recognise their contribution to the learning and development of young children.
