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The State of Bendigo’s Children Report When indicators are a foundation for change

The State of Bendigo’s Children Report When indicators are a foundation for change. Dave Pugh CEO St Luke’s Anglicare Chair Bendigo Child Friendly City Leadership Group. We pay respect to the Dharawal people, the traditional owners of this area, and to all elders present today. Overview.

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The State of Bendigo’s Children Report When indicators are a foundation for change

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  1. The State of Bendigo’s Children ReportWhen indicators are a foundation for change Dave Pugh CEO St Luke’s Anglicare Chair Bendigo Child Friendly City Leadership Group

  2. We pay respect to the Dharawal people, the traditional owners of this area, and to all elders present today.

  3. Overview • Who is St Luke’s Anglicare? • UNICEF – Bendigo, a Child Friendly City in development • Indicators, Data and Reports

  4. St Luke’s Anglicare St Luke’s delivers a broad range of services for vulnerable children, families, individuals and communities. We have a commitment to strengths-based practice, to community and to social change.

  5. UNICEF – Child Friendly Cities • Bendigo was the first city in Australia to be granted Child Friendly Status • UNICEF requires cities to be committed to the fullest implementation of the UN convention on the rights of the child • UNICEF has a framework for building child friendly cities - nine building blocks

  6. Building Blocks for a Child Friendly City

  7. Bendigo Child Friendly Leadership Group • Established in 2009 • Cross sectoral membership • Local government, community sector, health, education, justice, advocacy and others working with children and families • Has a vision, strategic plan and objectives • Main purpose to collectively advocate for change • Most significant achievement has been establishing a set of indicators to monitor progress

  8. Bendigo Child Friendly City Leadership Group • VISION • For Greater Bendigo to be an inclusive community where every child and young person thrives • Goals • The Child Friendly City Leadership Group is an effective change agent • Every child and young person is an equal and active citizen • Every child and young person is safe, secure, happy and healthy • Every child and young person learns and develops well • Priorities • A priority action was to implement the UNICEF ‘State of the Children’ approach

  9. Why are indicator reports so important? • To stimulate investment in children’s wellbeing • Provide data to evaluate effectiveness of systems level initiatives • Prevents children being forgotten in planning • Garner public support and further investment • Direct attention to neglected area of development • Make all parts of the system publically accountable • Bridge the gap between large population surveillance and specific program evaluation Centre for Child Wellbeing, GA, USA 2001

  10. Developing a framework for an Indicator Report • Literature review and interviews to gather strategic knowledge about need • Workshop with 40 reps from local and state governments, community sector, schools, academia, to create a framework of topics that reflected what was important to them • Used available data dictionaries and government frameworks to resource conversations

  11. Playing with Data (Data parties!)

  12. Effective community planning brings together three types of information • Technical information (empirical/expert) • Local knowledge • Strategic/political knowledge • Few organisations hold all • Community planning provides the process to bring the three together Jeanette Pope DPCD, Vic

  13. The State of Bendigo’s Children Report http://www.childfriendlycity.com.au/

  14. AEDI was an impetus and an opportunity

  15. Lessons1. Choose indicators that tell a powerful and energising story. 2. Present data simply and attractively

  16. Lessons 3. Data Gaps Are Strategic

  17. Following the report’s release…. • Funding opportunities aligned with the plan e.g. Communities for Children • Advocacy around data gaps continues • 40 workers convened to use Results Based Accountability Framework to respond to 8 galvanizing indicators • Progress towards Children’s Services Coordination Council (Governance vs. Advocacy) • Next report due April 2013

  18. Why is this work significant • Local area ‘wellbeing reports’ are a key resource for place-based planning and joined-up action • Children’s development strategies require national, statewide and local approaches • Vulnerable children and families require ‘progressive universalism’ and joined up approaches between all arms of government, universal and tertiary services • The trend towards localism and ‘place-based approaches’ will increase with conservative governments (UK White Paper Open Public Service)

  19. Success factors • Leadership Group with collective vision and objectives • Good use of networks, resources and capabilities of partners • Commitment to produce a report of high quality • Connectors, brokers, partners, encouragers, grants • A broad plan and opportunism • Ongoing ‘buy-in’ and engagement approaches

  20. Data and indicators are an essential foundation for action • ‘No data, no problem, no solution’ - Prof Frank Oberklaid • ‘What gets measured gets managed’ - Peter Drucker • ‘First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do’ - Epictetus 135 AD

  21. Thank you d.pugh@stlukes.org.au www.childfriendlycity.com.au

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