Community-led integrated early years services Emma Sydenham, Holly Mason-White [citation] : a vehicle for realising children's rights /

This article explores the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander integrated early childhood services as a vehicle for progressing our most vulnerable children's rights. Remedying significant gaps in the realisation of children's rights requires targeted, holistic strategies that respond to the causes of rights violations, recognise the indivisible and interrelated nature of human rights, and build on evidence of what works. Integrated approaches to the delivery of early childhood programs - that are owned by communities, respond to identified local needs and overcome service fragmentation - have significant potential to drive forward the realisation of Indigenous children's rights. This focuses on children, but necessarily supports strengthening and empowering families and communities to ensure sustainable long-term change. This is a strategy that Australia cannot afford not to support.