Witnesses provided evidence on issues including:

• the wellbeing of South Australian children and recent results of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC)
• the history of ECEC in Australia and South Australia
• the opportunity to use data to predict outcomes in children, and to target services to parts of South Australia where intervention and innovation in services can help vulnerable parents and families
• the opportunity to use data in a way that supports systems to learn, respond, evaluate and adjust
• existing research in Australia and the United Kingdom that shows how high quality ECEC can disrupt disadvantage and have a material impact on individual outcomes
• research from the New Zealand that has shown how childhood circumstances can impact into adulthood
• Australian research into barriers to accessing ECEC, including cultural and societal contexts.

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