‘Make no mistake, the justice system isn’t broken, it was built to work this way,’ Misty Rowan, Minneapolis poet and peace activist, told a Human Rights Day rally in 2014. Every time I see this quote, it speaks to me about the challenges in early childhood services.
The birth to five period impacts everyone’s life course, yet recent research found that 69 per cent of parents did not know the relationship between this period and later-life outcomes for health and well-being (Royal Foundation, 2021). This speaks volumes about the system we have built. Despite all the investment in universal services, we appear to be failing to equip parents with the knowledge and skills required for the most important role of their lives.
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