The Minderoo Foundation has launched its 2019 Annual Report, highlighting “a year of remarkable achievements,” including the collaboration between Minderoo, CoLab, the Early Intervention Foundation, the Front Project and Woodside Energy, to produce The Cost of Late Intervention (CoLI) report.

Shared reading is associated with stronger vocabulary skills for nearly all children by three years of age, physicians at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Princeton University have found, showing this to be the case even for children who genetically may be vulnerable to barriers in learning, attention and behaviour development.

With the introduction of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) based subjects being a ‘hot topic’ in educational conversation at all levels from birth to tertiary, The Sector Editor Freya Lucas recently spoke with Associate Professor Amy MacDonald to learn more about her research, early childhood and the field of STEM, and her work with Little Scientists.

SNAICC – National Voice for Our Children has recently released the findings from a survey of child and family service organisations, undertaken between June and August 2019.

Children who are known to child protective services are at increased risk for childhood onset mental disorders, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).