Healthy Early Childhood Services Achievement Program

Kids on Gallaghers Child Care Centre have successfully achieved Victorian Government recognition for all six health priority areas of the Victorian Healthy Early Childhood Services Achievement Program.

Health Priority Areas

This program is a government framework that creates a healthy learning environment and supports the health and wellbeing of everyone at an early childhood service. It is centred around six key health areas, which include:

  • Healthy Eating and Oral Health
  • Physical Activity and Movement
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Sun Protection
  • Safe Environments
  • Smoking, Vaping, Alcohol and Other Drugs
Each health area has a set of targets to achieve, resulting in healthy changes to a service's physical environment, policies and practices, and health promoting activities. When you meet all targets in a health area, you receive recognition with certificates and a sticker to attach to a special sign which we proudly display out the front of our service. 

The Achievement Program has recently introduced a new key health area supporting members to adapt to climate change and also take climate actions that co-benefit health and wellbeing. This priority area is titled Climate and Health, because if we want to be healthy, we need to keep the planet healthy, too!