Kids Come First
The Kids Come First Project is a major Tasmanian whole-of-government initiative that is developing new ways to measure the health, wellbeing and educational progress of our kids.
The objectives of the Kids Come First Project are:
- To develop an outcomes-based framework for children with key indicators of health, wellbeing, safety, development and learning that reflect the influences of child, family, community and service systems;
- Improved understanding within government and the broader community of children’s health, wellbeing, development and learning by mapping key outcomes data together with community profiles to demonstrate relative strengths and weaknesses in local areas, together with contributing factors
- To examine and make recommendations regarding the legislative base for reporting and monitoring against these outcomes and indicators by Government and non-government agencies and ensuring that agencies are committed to working towards improvements;
- To provide recommendations to government on how the framework can best be utilised to improve access, equity and targeting of services to areas of need; and
- To enable government agencies to utilize the framework to develop innovative models of integrated service delivery, and raise community awareness.
A Summary of the plan is available via the link below
