Putting Queensland Kids First
The Queensland Government has a clear vision for the State: to deliver good jobs, better services, and a great Queensland lifestyle. However, in recent years, the unprecedented impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, successive natural disasters, and increasing cost of living pressures have collectively challenged the social, emotional, and physical wellbeing of Queenslanders.
We are committed to supporting every Queenslander to thrive and live meaningful lives, from birth through to adulthood. Early years interventions have the power to transform life trajectories with lifelong and multigenerational health, social and economic benefits. By improving wellbeing from the earliest years of life, we are creating an economically prosperous future for every Queenslander.
Our Putting Queensland Kids First Consultation Draft articulates a vision that focuses on strengthening protective factors around children, young people and families to prevent adverse experiences through early interventions and prevention — starting early in life and targeting key transition points.
Our key priorities include: enhancing wellbeing from conception through the early years of life, supporting parents, healthy child development, confident transitions to learning, and integrated service delivery.
Greater detail is outlined in Putting Queensland Kids First Consultation Draft.
We want to hear from you
Supporting our children will take diverse contributions from across our statewide community, so we are seeking your ideas and reflections on the proposed Putting Queensland Kids First package, and supports that will deliver better outcomes for young Queenslanders. Your responses can include real life examples or ideas about how an approach might impact the wellbeing of children and young people. Your feedback will inform the development of a final package to improve outcomes and life trajectories for Queensland.
We value everyone’s perspective so encourage all Queenslanders to contribute, including but not limited to our community members and groups, First Nations peoples and leaders, academic researchers, non-government organisations, private and commercial businesses and philanthropic organisations.
To share your opinions with us, please read the consultation draft, and then:
- complete the online survey or
- email your ideas and reflections to PQKFconsultation@premiers.qld.gov.au.
Survey
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