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Child and Family Centres providing important support for parentsTasmania's Child and Family Centres are having a positive impact on parent's use and experiences of services and supports for young children
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Key study unveils significant link between hospital admissions and kids with ADHDNew research from The Kids Research Institute Australia has revealed a significant link between kids with severe ADHD and higher rates of early childhood hospital admissions.
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$2 million boost to child development researchResearchers at Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research have been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council linkage grant
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Parental fear leads to inactive 'cottonwool' kids: studyParental fear leads to inactive 'cottonwool' kids. Children's development and wellbeing are under threat because their parents are fearful of strangers
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Alarming increase in drug affected newbornsA new Australian study has found that the number of newborns suffering serious drug withdrawal symptoms is now more than 40 times higher than in 1980.
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Mixed results for late talking toddlersFindings from the world's largest study on language emergence have revealed that one in four late talking toddlers continue to have language problems at age 7
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The Wellbeing and Engagement Collection (WEC): Promoting the importance of students’ wellbeing and mental health in schoolso help raise the profile of student wellbeing in the education system in Australia, The Kids Research Institute Australia and SA Department for Education through the Fraser Mustard Centre, set out to adapt and trial a population-level student wellbeing measure that could be used across the entire public and p
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Participation in the Wellbeing and Engagement collection in South Australian schoolsIn South Australian schools, students in Grade 4 to 12 are invited to participate in an annual survey about their wellbeing and engagement in school, referred to as the Wellbeing and Engagement Collection.
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Wellbeing and Engagement Collection (WEC) in the South Australian school systemThe aim of the WEC is to help teachers, school leaders and policy makers better understand and support the wellbeing and engagement of their students.
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