Launching into Learning is a four year commitment to families and young children aged from birth to four years. The initiative provides $12.6 million during the four years from 2006-2010.
Its purpose is to provide support and intervention before children begin Kindergarten and recognises that this is likely to be more effective in achieving success and to influence a wider range of outcomes than interventions that occur later in life.
It aims to:
- give Tasmania's youngest children the best possible start in life
- support parents as their child's first, ongoing and often most influential teachers
- recognise, value and enhance the initiatives that have developed in some school communities
- support principals:
- to create a school culture that values learning in the early years
- to lead the design of appropriate programs and the coordination and integration of relevant services in their school community.
- create models that respond to the learning needs of young children in each community with a focus on:
- working with parents
- partnerships with other services
- early literacy and school readiness
- prevention and intervention
- marginalised, poorly-resourced and hard-to-reach families with young children.
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