Youth ProfileSocial Capital in GLLEN Region

Anne BrinsdenAssistant Regional Director, Early Childhood and Youth, Loddon Mallee Region

21st June 2012

What do we know about how we learn?

Social gradient of learning• Effects on literacy and numeracy achievement at school entry to mid

school years:1. Educational attainment of the mother2. Quality of learning in the home3. Quality of early childhood education

Social Gradient of Health• The best predictor of poor health and even death in middle age may be

failure to learn to read by the age of 8 years (Associate Professor Jill Sewell)

Brain Development

LMR Environment

LMR Demographics% Victoria % Loddon

Mallee Region

Year 12 or equivalent attainment 79.8 73.1

Adolescent victims of crime 17.5 21.1 per 1000

Adolescent offenders of crime 65.3 90.4 per 1000

Adolescents on community based order 1.5 2.1

Teenage pregnancies 10.6 19.1 per 1000

Child protection substantiations 4.4 7.3

AEDI: vulnerable on two or more domains 10.0 12.0

SEHQ Highest family stress levels 1.7 2.2

SEHQ Children with speech and language difficulties 14.6 17.6

SEHQ Children with disability or developmental delay 4.7 5.0

SEHQ Concerns about child's behaviour 15.3 17.1

Average age of kindergarten teachers in 2009 41.5 years 44.7 years

Central goldfields = 19.6%Bendigo = 18.3%

CGB =19.4Loddon = 23.3MRCC = 27.0Gannawarra = 25.1Swan Hill = 29.2Campaspe = 19.8LMR had a record number of CP

notifications in 2011

Bendigo = 6.4%Mt Alexander = 5.3

LMR Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage • Number and percentage of the population living in collector districts

with SEIFA score under the 986 Regional Victorian average, 2006 (ABS 2006)

Number %Loddon Mallee 146201 36%Greater Bendigo 44446 48%Mildura 26894 54%

Campaspe 17084 47%

Swan Hill 12290 60%

Central Goldfields 12326 100%Mount Alexander 8582 51%Gannawarra 7587 67%

Loddon 5654 72%

Buloke 4838 71%

Macedon Ranges 4826 13%

Current Impacts: Loddon Mallee Region Adolescent Profile

% Victoria % Loddon Mallee Region

Year 10-12 apparent retention rate 82.4 77.6Year 12 or equivalent attainment 79.8 70.7Adolescent victims of crime 17.5 21.1Adolescent offenders of crime 65.3 90.4Adolescents on community based order 1.5 2.1Teenage pregnancies 10.6 19.1 per 1000Child protection substantiations 4.4 7.3 AEDI: vulnerable on 2 or more domains 10.0 12.0

Swan Hill = 29.2Mildura = 27.0Gannawarra = 25.1Loddon = 23.3Campaspe = 19.8CGB = 19.4

Loddon Mallee: Youth Disengaged from Learning

Victoria: Disengaged Young People

LMR Government School Student Absences by Year Level

School absences by year correlate with vulnerability cohorts

Central Goldfields Shire SEIFA = 1 out of 79 i.e. most disadvantaged municipality in Victoria

Demographics % Victoria % Central Goldfields

Children developmentally vulnerable on one or more AEDI domains

20.2% 35.7%

Children developmentally vulnerable on two or more AEDI domains

10.0% 17.9%

Year 12 or equivalent attainment * 79.8% 70.8%

Adolescent victims of crime** 17.5 per 1000 35.6 per 1000

Adolescent offenders of crime** 65.3 per 1000 159.3 per 1000

Substantiated child protection reports*** 7.0% 21.7%

City of Greater Bendigo SEIFA = 33 out of 79: 1 = most disadvantaged municipality in Victoria

Demographics % Victoria % Central Goldfields

Children developmentally vulnerable on one or more AEDI domains

20.2% 23.1%

Children developmentally vulnerable on two or more AEDI domains

10.0% 12.5%

Year 12 or equivalent attainment* 79.8 67.9%

Adolescent victims of crime** 17.5 per 1000 22.7 per 1000

Adolescent offenders of crime** 65.3 per 1000 99.5 per 1000

Substantiated child protection reports*** 7.0% 11.9%

Mount Alexander Shire SEIFA = 30 out of 79: 1 = most disadvantaged municipality in Victoria

Demographics % Victoria % Central Goldfields

Children developmentally vulnerable on one or more AEDI domains

20.2% 18.7%

Children developmentally vulnerable on two or more AEDI domains

10.0% 11.8%

Year 12 or equivalent attainment * 79.8 82.9%

Adolescent victims of crime** 17.5 per 1000 14.4 per 1000

Adolescent offenders of crime** 65.3 per 1000 74.0 per 1000

Substantiated child protection reports*** 7.0% 11.0%%

The Costs of Disengagement

For every dollar that government invests in retaining early school leavers, the expected return is as much as 3.2 times more