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Around seven per cent of children and young people live in poverty, and one third are developmentally vulnerable when they start full-time school.

Daniel Christensen, The Kids Research Institute Australia Life Course Centre research fellow, explained there was rapid change in a child’s brain in the first few years of life, making their home environment and relationship with carers incredibly important.

The effects of educational advantage or disadvantage get handed down through the generations according to a new study by researchers at the The Kids.

Professor Cate Taylor, is part of an International cohort of researchers to secure over €1.45million in grant funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.

Researchers working on the Developmental Pathways Project are determined to find out what makes families vulnerable to child abuse and neglect.

Australian researchers join global effort to better understand how events during pregnancy and childhood influence the development of disease later in life.

Dr Jack Shonkoff, from Harvard University is visiting Perth this week as a guest of CoLab, Goodstart Early Learning and Child Australia.

New research by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found children who attend playgroups achieve better early primary school outcomes.

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

The national report released today from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) shows that in 2015, most children in Australia were on track.