We invite you to join a crucial discussion shaping the future of services and supports for children with developmental delays, disabilities, and neurodivergence. The Best Practice National Guidelines Forum will bring together professionals, experts, and community members to collaborate on the 2nd Edition of the National Guidelines for Best Practice. These guidelines aim to ensure inclusive, high-quality, and accessible support for children and families across Australia.
Whether you’re a professional in the field, a parent, or someone with lived experience, this is your opportunity to contribute to shaping the best practices for early intervention and disability support.
Have you ever struggled to find help for your child when you needed it? Have you been met with waiting lists, confusion, complicated language, service system barriers, and dead ends? Have you been been left feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and lost?
You are not alone. This, sadly, is a common experience for families seeking help and support for their young child. Often, the cost of the time and difficulty in accessing services and support is a loss of potential for your child.
It shouldn’t be this way. Families should be supported by a system that provides easy access to services and supports for all children, when and where they need them. Help us make this a reality. Join our campaign today to ensure that every child is given every possibility to thrive.
Reimagine Australia is calling on all side of government to pledge their support to reform the early childhood service eco-system.
We are campaigning for our elected representatives to recognise the importance of supporting young children and their families, and to prioritise a national reform program that will enable families to have access to services and supports for their child through a well-resourced, easy to navigate, inclusive and culturally responsive service system.
We are asking for your support to co-sign the Reimagine Statement. If you are an early childhood or family professional, organisation or peak body, we invite you to co-sign and add you name or organisation logo to our Statement.
Reimagine Australia (Reimagine) was proud to be tasked with the delivery of the first very National Early Childhood 10-year Action Plan, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government. The Action Plan, delivered in 2020, provides a clear road map to 2030 to support the development of children, optimise social and economic outcomes for children from birth to six years with developmental delay or disability and support their families in a broad range of evidence-informed and innovative approaches. It forms the basis of our Reimagine Statement (above).
The Action Plan is grounded in a strong family context, co-designed with families and for families, to maximise outcomes for the hundreds of thousands of Australian families and caregivers every year who seek to support ac young child with additional needs.