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National Playgroup Week, the annual event run by Playgroup Australia, will take place across the country from 20 March to 27 March.

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The Early Human Capability Index is a holistic measure intended to capture early child development across diverse cultures and contexts.

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Research on the consequences of breakfast skipping among students tends to focus on academic outcomes, rather than student wellbeing or engagement at school. This study investigated the association between breakfast skipping and cognitive and emotional aspects of school engagement.

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There has been concerns about the increasing incidence of youth depression and anxiety, with school teachers seeking out ways to better equip youth with skills to help them deal with daily life. A resilience training programme for youth was implemented in one region of New Zealand.

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There is increasing international interest in place-based approaches to improve early childhood development (ECD) outcomes. The available data and evidence are limited and precludes well informed policy and practice change. Developing the evidence-base for community-level effects on ECD is one way to facilitate more informed and targeted community action.

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This paper documents that children in rural Indonesia participate in a great variety of early childhood education pathways

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The implementation of the Pacific early age readiness and learning program has generated significant data, evidence, operational experience, and knowledge

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The results from this review indicate that it would indeed be plausible to adapt the population health approach to sites and schools

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Patterns of early childhood developmental vulnerabilities may provide useful indicators for particular mental disorder outcomes in later life

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The relationship between features of the neighbourhood built environment and early child development was investigated