A benefit-cost analysis of the Early Years Education Program

本项目对早期教育项目（EYEP）进行了效益-成本分析。EYEP是一项创新的早期教育和儿童保育计划，旨在帮助面临虐待和忽视风险的儿童，目前正在墨尔本儿童保护协会进行试验。在试验中使用随机评估方法，EYEP的创新性和广泛性，跨学科研究团队和数据收集的广度，为完成高质量的效益-成本分析提供了机会，这将是国际上独一无二的。这项研究的结果有可能影响澳大利亚30,000名高危儿童的儿童保育和教育设计，并为常规儿童保育方法提供信息。

This project undertakes a benefit-cost analysis of the Early Years Education Program (EYEP). EYEP is an innovative early years education and childcare program for children at risk of abuse and neglect that is being trialled by the Children’s Protection Society in Melbourne. The use of the randomised evaluation method in the trial, the innovative and extensive nature of EYEP, the inter-disciplinary research team, and the breadth of data collection, provide the opportunity to complete a high quality benefit-cost analysis that will be internationally unique. Results from the study have the potential to influence the design of childcare and education for 30,000 at-risk children in Australia, as well as informing approaches in regular childcare.