WHERE IT MATTERS MOST
KU educators are committed to
providing an inclusive environment
for children and families.
In addition, over the coming years, the
KU Marcia Burgess Foundation will
prioritise fundraising initiatives and
programs designed to provide greater
access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children, families and young
people in early childhood education
settings. Our focus is on creating
and strengthening collaborative
partnerships with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander peoples, and
ensuring those partnerships guide
our work in this area; a priority focus
at the new KU Ashmont Preschool
and Family Centre on track to open its
doors in 2020.
Another substantial component
of KU’s social impact programs
has been the inclusion support
services provided by KU under the
Australian Government’s Inclusion
Support Program.
KU supports the inclusion of children
with additional needs in early
childhood services by providing
advice and support, access to funded
support, and specialist equipment to
services, through Inclusion Agencies
in NSW, ACT, QLD and VIC. In 2019,
KU Inclusion Agency staff supported
7,361 early childhood education
services across these states.
KU’s commitment to inclusion does
not end there. In 2019, over 700
children with additional needs were
included in KU services, assisted
by KU’s Education Support Team,
and over 6,200 hours of NDISfunded
services were delivered
across KU centres, including almost
3,500 hours of paediatric speech
pathology services.
In addition, 1,653 children from
refugee and new migrant families
were welcomed to Australia through
childcare in KU’s Adult Migrant
English Program (AMEP) services, and
716 families increased their child’s
engagement with the community
through KU’s Family Programs.
Social impact has long been at
the core of what we do at KU, and
we will continue to strengthen our
commitment to supporting the most
vulnerable children to participate in
early childhood education as we enter
our 125 th year in 2020.
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