Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are engaged in high quality, culturally appropriate early childhood education in their early years
Target 3: By 2025, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children enrolled in Year Before Fulltime Schooling (YBFS) early childhood education to 95 per cent.
Indicators:
Contextual information:
- Rate of attendance in early childhood education in the year before full-time schooling
- Number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early childhood education and care service providers
- Progress towards parity
Disaggregation:
- States/territories
- Remoteness areas
- Socio-economic status of the locality
- Gender
Data Development:
Explore options to measure and report:
- rate of enrolment and attendance of three-year-olds (two years before full-time schooling) in early childhood education
- proportion of early childhood education facilities attended by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children meeting or exceeding National Quality Standard
- access to culturally appropriate early childhood education programs
- access to bilingual education
- number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early years’ service providers
- barriers to attendance (including out-of-pocket costs, access to services, transport, housing)
- parental education, health and disability
- health and disability of children
- lessons from Commonwealth, state and territory early childhood education support initiatives
When this target is met, develop future targets for enrolment and attendance rates for two years before full time schooling.