Transcript Review of Disability Services Act 1992

Kids Come First Project
Kids Come First Project
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Kids Come First Project
Antenatal
Birth
Tasmanian Child Health and Wellbeing Survey
• Physical Activity
Smoking, Drinking, Illicit Drug
• Nutrition
Use During Pregnancy
• Mental Health
Attendance at• Family
LiteracyFunctioning
and
Nurse Health Numeracy in
Low Birth Weight
Assessment Prep (PIPS)
Early Years (0 – 5)
Congenital
Infant Mortality BreastfeedingDevelopmental
Malformation
rates (6 weeks, 6Vulnerability
months)
(AEDI)
Teenage Pregnancy
Education
• NAPLAN
• Absences (Chronic Absenteeism)
• Suspensions
Children (6 – 12)
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Young People (12 – 17)
Alcohol, Tobacco and Illicit Drug
Child Protection
ABS Census Consumption (ASSAD)
•Children notified
• Socio-Economic Disadvantage
• Children investigated
• Low income families
•Children in Out of Home Care
• Access to a vehicle
• Multiple Placements in Out of Home Care
•Access to the Internet
•Children with a disability
Hospitalisations
• Injury and poisoning
• Asthma
cu@home
(Teenage pregnancy)
Community
Youth
Justice
Custodial
Youth
Justice
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Australian Early Development Index
Children Developmentally Vulnerable on the Australian Early Development
Index (AEDI)
Proportion of children developmentally vulnerable
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Physical health and
wellbeing
Social Competence
Tasmania
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Emotional Maturity
Australia
Language and
cognitive skills
East Devonport
Communication skills Vulnerable on one or Vulnerable on two or
and general
more domain of the more domains of the
knowledge
AEDI
AEDI
Most disadvantaged communities (SEIFA)
Kids Come First
• Reports
• Analysers
• Profiles
– Area Profiles
– Child and Family Centre Profiles
• Maps
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Working with Communities
• Child and Family Centres
• Providing support for grant applications
• Place based (Area advisory groups, Local Government, Huon
Valley Health Services Advisory Committee)
• Coalitions of Interest
– Breastfeeding Coalition, Making Choices (teenage
pregnancy), Child Home Injury Prevention, Early Years
Groups
• Schools, Child Health Nurses, Neighbourhood Houses, Non
Government Organisations
• Overarching Bilateral Indigenous Plan (COAG Closing the Gap)
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Lessons Learnt
• Real time analysis saves time and increases
understanding
• A holistic approach to data collection takes
more time but pays off in the long term
• The need for various tools to engage with
communities – not just tables of data
– Maps
– Visualisations
– Narrative / Context
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Lessons Learnt
• An iterative process to measuring outcomes is
ok– indicators can be improved over time
• More eyes on the data the better
• Don’t forget the data gaps
– Eg Family Violence indicator
– Let people know what you want to measure
• There’s no such thing as evidence based – only
evidence influenced
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Lessons Learnt
• Importance of comparisons
– Similar communities (LGA)
– Over time
– LGA / State / National
• Be willing to:
– Let the data question your assumptions
– Let your experience question the data
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Future Directions
• Moving from interest to action
– Clearly linking decisions to data
• Ensuring that monitoring outcomes and using
them to inform planning becomes part of
everyday business
• Evaluations using data linkage
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Contact Us
http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/kids_come_first
[email protected]
6233 3764
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