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Latrobe City Council is committed to improving the livability of the community. This was one of the five key strategic objectives identified in the Council Plan 2004 - 2008: "To promote and support social, recreational, cultural, and community life through the amenity, services and facilities provided within the municipality."
A Municipal Early Years Plan (MEYP) provides a valuable platform through which this objective might be achieved. A MEYP is a local area plan designed to provide a strategic direction for the development and coordination of educational, care and health (ECECH) programs, activities and other local developments that impact on children of 0 - 6 years.
Over the past few months Latrobe City developed a draft Municipal Early Years Plan with the help of community and agency input. The Plan focuses on ways to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for young children through working in partnership with government, community and private service providers. The MEYP is for the period 2004-2008.
The Plan integrates the relevant components of the Latrobe City Community Plan, (which combines the elements of a Municipal Public Health Plan, a Neighbourhood Environment Improvement Plan and Neighbourhood Renewal Action Plans), the Latrobe City Vision for 2021 and the Council Plan 2004 - 2008.
The early years of life are of major importance in the growth and development of healthy, responsible and caring members of the community. This is increasingly recognised by all involved professions and the community, and this recognition is demonstrated in government policies and funding processes at both State and Federal levels.
To invest in the development of children 0-6 years of age is to invest in the future of the community.
Latrobe City looks forward to working with other agencies to strengthen and expand the learning and growth opportunities available to our children and to building an environment in which our children, families and community can thrive.
The Latrobe City MEYP has an emphasis on children's services and the social sector, but the physical, economic and natural environments also have relevance to the wellbeing of children and families in our City. Children do not exist in isolation from the wider community or the issues that challenge it.
The economic security of families and the state of the environment impinge on the health and development of children and parallel planning and development processes have been put in place by the City to address such matters.
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