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The feasibility of evaluating outdoor nature-based early childhood education and care provision: a pilot quasi-experimental design

Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Background Systematic reviews have demonstrated the scarcity of well-designed evaluations investigating outdoor nature-based play and learning provision for children in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector.
Oliver Traynor, Anne Martin, Nai Rui Chng, Paul McCrorie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide, Linda Harrison, Sandie Wong, Frances Press, Belinda Davis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hidden in the Labour Market: An Intersectional Latent Class Analysis of Discouraged Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
wiley   +1 more source

“I don't take what's in[side] outside, I see it as a different environment”: Understanding the factors influencing outdoor play and learning implementation in Scotland’s early childhood education settings

Wellbeing, Space and Society
Scotland’s early years sector benefits from progressive policies advocating outdoor provision to support healthy child development and wellbeing, yet implementation success often varies across early childhood education (ECE) settings.
Oliver Traynor, Paul McCrorie, Nai Rui Chng, Avril Johnstone, Anne Martin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Educational outcomes among children with congenital heart disease compared to peers: a Scotland-wide record-linkage study of 715,850 schoolchildren

BMC Pediatrics
Background Nine in every thousand children born in the United Kingdom have congenital heart disease, and 250,000 adults are living with the condition.
Michael Fleming, Paul Athanasopoulos, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Partnership Working in Recovery and Wellbeing Colleges: Making Recovery Colleges ‘Fit for the Future’

The first Recovery and Wellbeing College in the UK was developed in 2009 and to date there are some 220 Recovery and Wellbeing Colleges across the UK and 26 other countries worldwide.
Williams, Sue, Cable, Mary-Anne, Higo, Valerie, Shildaur, Kerry, Dearne, Iris, Perkins, Rachel, Cooper, Stacy, Taylor Crossley, Lindsey   +7 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caregiver Reports on the Needs and Experiences of Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Results From an Australian Survey

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children experiencing parental imprisonment are known to be among the most overlooked in our community. They often experience multiple and compounding disadvantages, with long‐term consequences, but receive no specialised assistance. Knowledge about these children and their families is lacking in Australia and is required to inform policy ...
Catherine Flynn, Lana Battaglia, Lorana Bartels, Susan Dennison, Susy Harrigan, Lee Huggins, Sofia Grage‐Moore   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluability assessment of a targeted national anti-child poverty policy: option appraisal for evaluating the Scottish Child Payment

Health Research Policy and Systems
Background The Scottish Child Payment (SCP) is a recurring cash transfer introduced in 2021 for low-income families, unique within the United Kingdom and forming a core part of the Scottish Government’s statutory child poverty reduction strategy.
Michal Shimonovich, Olivia K. L. Hamilton, Peter Craig, Gerard McCartney, Anna Pearce, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Rachel M. Thomson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source