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Municipal Early Years Plan 2015-2019 Buloke Shire Council Municipal Early Years Plan 2015-2019 “....... Victorian councils have developed their planning capacity and council planning cycles have changed..... It focuses less on service planning and more on outcomes for children and families - with a focus on 0 – 8 years. There is an increased emphasis on encouraging a partnership approach where all community partners can work towards an agreed vision and common outcomes for young children and their families across the municipality” Municipal Association of Victoria, 2011, p. 23. Contents Introduction page Mayor’s message 3 Executive Summary 4-5 Introduction 6-19 - The Early Years 6-7 - What is a Municipal Early Years Plan & why is it important? 8 - Council’s Role in the Early Years 9-10 . Visioning & Planning 11 . Infrastructure 12-17 . Service Provision 18-19 The Policy and Planning Context 20-34 - Local Government 20-21 - Buloke Shire Council – Key Policy & planning Linkages 21-24 - Regional 24-26 - Victorian 26-30 - National 30-33 - Internationally 34 The Community Context – Who Are We? 35-39 - Our Early Years community – at a glance 35-38 - Where are we heading? 39 Methodology, Consultations and Findings 40-60 - Methodology Foundation 40 - How children informed the Plan and what they said 41-42 - How families and communities informed the Plan and what they said 43-52 - How services and organisations informed the Plan and what they said 53-57 - Summary Strengths, Challenges and Opportunities 58-60 Strategy Areas, Actions and Implementation 61-63 - Planning, Coordination and Communication 61 - Service Provision 62 - Infrastructure 62 - Advocacy 62-63 - Community Building, Engagement and Inclusion 63 Monitoring, Evaluation and Review 64 References 65 Appendices 66 1. Infrastructure Audit tables 2. Buloke Shire Child and Youth Community Profile 2015 3. Service Provider Focus Group Findings Prepared for: Buloke Shire Council, June 2015 Prepared by: Rachael Williams Local Logic Place www.locallogicplace.com.au 2 | P a g e Mayor’s Message The Buloke Shire Council Municipal Early Years Plan (MEYP) 2015-2019 outlines Council’s plan to work in partnership with the community, other levels of Government, and relevant service providers to create an environment that provides children with opportunities to grow and develop, and their families with the support they need to fulfil their parenting roles. The MEYP articulates a vision ‘for Buloke children to receive equitable access to services and infrastructure regardless of their location, supported by their community and scaffolded by a committed early years network’. The goals of this MEYP are designed to achieve this vision and are based on priorities for action identified through research and community consultation. The members of the Buloke community who have contributed to the development of this plan are committed to working with Council to ensure that children who live in the municipality are valued as citizens who play an important role, now and into the future. There is also a commitment from service providers who participated in the development of this plan to work to achieve the vision and goals. By articulating Council’s role in service and infrastructure provision, planning, advocacy and community development for young children, the MEYP is a framework that provides direction for Council to work in partnership with the community to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children. The Buloke Shire Council wishes to thank the community members, early childhood care and education professionals, groups, agencies, organisations, individuals and families who participated with Council Officers in the development of this plan. Collaboratively developing a plan that brings together the aspirations and needs of the community and strategic actions to achieve positive outcomes for children will have long term benefits for the citizens of the Shire. I commend this Municipal Early Years Plan to you as a living and dynamic document and I look forward to working with the community to ensure that the actions within the plan are implemented. Cr Reid Mather 3 | P a g e Executive Summary There is now clear evidence from Australia and around the world that the early years of a child’s life has a profound and lasting impact on their future health, development, learning and wellbeing and as a result the wellbeing of their communities and the nation. Acknowledging the importance of the Early Years local government is playing an increasingly significant role in human service provision and planning, commencing with the provision of Maternal and Child Health services from as early as 1917 and kindergarten infrastructure from the 1950s. The Victorian Local Government Act 1989 specifically supports this active ‘Early Years’ role, describing the purposes and functions of local government as including responsibility for ‘health, welfare and other community services’ and the Act’s schedule lists services for children and families, childcare and developmental services under this heading. This mandate was further strengthened in 2009 when the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and the then Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) signed a Partnership Agreement recognising their collaborative in planning, development and provision of early year’s programs. These policy and planning imperatives at the State government level are reflected and extended both regionally, nationally and internationally and include initiatives such as the Mallee Child and Youth Area Partnership, the National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education and the National Quality Framework and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Reflecting this global emphasis Buloke Shire Council either provides, accommodates or promotes and values varying levels of early year’s services throughout the municipality. Additionally they play a critical and increasingly strong role in advocacy, highlighted most recently through their Rural Living campaign. Buloke Shire Council’s Vision for the Municipal’s Early Years community is: For Buloke children to receive equitable access to services and infrastructure regardless of their location, supported by their community and scaffolded by a committed early years network. The Buloke Shire Council provides critical Early Years infrastructure including Kindergarten buildings, Maternal and Child Health centres, some Playgroup facilities, parks and playgrounds, pools and recreation reserves and infrastructure to support visiting mobile library services. Buloke Shire Council’s role in actual Early Years service delivery to families across the Municipality includes Maternal and Child Health and Immunisation. Planning for the provision of these services must not only reflect State and National policy directives but also be commensurate with the municipal population and the needs of the communities themselves. Drawing on 2011 Census data the Early Years community profile complied to inform the Buloke Shire Council Municipal Early Years Plan shows a shire wide population of 6,384 people including 1,692 families with an average of 2 children. Of these families only 10.3% identified as ‘one parent’ below the state average of 15.5% (Sea Lake was closest to this state average with 14.8% of families 4 | P a g e identifying as one parent). The Early Years population, aged 0-8 years, totalled 647 across the LGA with the highest numbers of children aged 0-8 years living in and around the communities of Donald (176), Charlton (115), Birchip (67) Sea Lake (65), Watchem (64), Wycheproof (57), Culgoa (39), Berriwillock (30) and Nandaly (28) respectively. Research by the Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure (DTPLI) in Victoria in Future 2014 shows population decline between 2001 – 2011 but would suggest this is stabilising into the future. For example the 0-4 year old population is set to decline from 350 in 2011 to a projected 329 in 2031. For children aged 5-14 years there is an expected to decrease from 815 in 2011 to 572 in 2031. The community profile also reveals both strengths and challenges with living in the Buloke Shire. Strengths included high feelings of safety and civic spirit. Challenges included lower percentages of the population believing facilities / services are good, increasing levels of socioeconomic disadvantage and higher numbers of children developmentally vulnerable according to Australia Early Development Census data. The strengths and challenges recognised in the statistical data were clearly recognised on the ground and as such reflected comments made in community consultations held throughout the LGA. Children, families, community members and service providers alike felt strongly that the Shire was a great place to raise a young family, allowing children wonderful opportunities to develop in safe and caring communities. The most significant challenges were consistently around the maintenance of current service provision levels and of access to services beyond those provided locally. Drawing on the findings of the consultation for the Municipal Early Years Plan alongside mandated parameters of local government service delivery to the Early Years the following Strategy Areas are recommended for the Buloke Shire over the coming four years: 1. Planning, Coordination and Communication 4. Advocacy and 2. Service Provision 5. Community Building, Engagement and 3. Infrastructure Inclusion The Actions contained within these Strategy Areas reflect the strengths of
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