Mount Gambier Charter For Children

Following the series of forums and workshops held in Mount Gambier over the past two years the City of Mount Gambier’s Lifelong Learning Sub Committee is developing partnership projects which enhance our community across each stage of the learning cycle.

With a goal of making Mount Gambier the most liveable City for all of our citizens, we recognised the importance of developing a pledge with local services to allow our children to flourish in their earliest years.

To date the sub-committee has primarily focused on partnerships in the early childhood stage of the lifelong learning cycle. 

Through the Perspectives of the Child project we have listened to young children as well as the early learning educators who support them.  This has been important as the City recognises the value in encouraging and respecting the perspectives of children and responding to their requests and interests. 

We appreciate it takes a village to raise a child, and that villages are enhanced by having inquisitive, active, happy children who explore and participate actively in community life.

The City of Mount Gambier welcomes the opportunity of working with our “whole village”, as we work towards developing a Children’s Charter for this City. 

In late 2014, we met with a broad representation of local champions, to draft the Mount Gambier Charter for Children. Check out the video here.

This charter aims to serve as an aspirational set of principles, to guide the work of Council and early learning services who wish to subscribe to the Charter’s principles.

Though the focus is early childhood, with the aim of decreasing rates of developmental delay in the region (recorded independently by the Australian Early Childhood Index -AEDI) we recognise the Charter principles have relevance and application across childhood.

For further information on the Mount Gambier Charter for Children, please contact City of Mount Gambier Community Development Officer, Alison Brash on (08) 8721 2504 or abrash@mountgambier.sa.gov.au.