The Blueprint for Education and Early Childhood Development – after a broad range of community consultations including one held at the last Cardinia Education Forum – was launched on the 2nd of September by Premier Brumby. The Blueprint includes an increased emphasis on partnerships – with parents and families and with local communities and businesses. There is an emphasis on integrating the educational pathways for children from early childhood through to secondary schooling.

The Blueprint also emphasises the importance of young people making good transitions from school and lays out actions for this to occur. One of the key actions referred to in the document is “improved transitions” (page 21). Schools, including those secondary schools in Cardinia Shire, will have responsibility for monitoring young people’s pathways until they complete Year 12 or equivalent with greater expectations for accountability placed on schools to support their students to meaningful post-school pathways.

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