Results

We are tracking results at key stages along the life course

Are we making a difference ?  There’s a few proof points across the lifecourse that will tell us how our kids are doing and whether we are achieving our goals.  For starters we’re going to track these four Big Results:

1. Health Status at Birth
2. Development at 3 years
3. Development at 5 years
4. Year 3 NAPLAN

 

Health Status at Birth	Baseline	2025	Current
Birth weight over 2,500 grams	353 babies	329 babies	348 babies
Born after 36 weeks	499 babies	442 babies	499 babies
Low APGAR score after five minutes	203 babies	80 babies	203 babies

 

Development at 3 years	Baseline	2025	Current
We’d love to have a set of measures for this lifestage	0	0	0

 

Development at 5 years     55	Baseline	2025	Current
AEDC – Vulnerable 1 or more	1509 childen	1242 children	1530 children
Domain 1 – physical health – kids on track	3365 kids on track	3475 kids on track	3413 children
Domain 2 – social competence – kids on track	3213 kids on track	3389 kids on track	3258 children
Domain 3 – emotional wellbeing – kids on track	3227 kids on track	3499 kids on track	3273 children
Domain 4 – language and cognitive development – kids on track	3594 kids on track	3917 kids on track	3644 children
Domain 5 – communication and general knowledge – kids on track	3303 kids on track	3465 kids on track	3350 children

 

year 3 NAPLAN   55	Baseline	2025	Current
National Minimum Standard  (average)	4205 students	4446 students	4205 students
Top 2 Bands (average)	1292 students	1833 students	1292 students

 

We’ll measure success in a range of ways.  But, long term, we’ll have to see progress in these indicators to know we’ve made a difference. 

We’ve got some gaps in our knowledge – as you’ll see we’d really like to know much more about how kids are doing at Age 3 for instance – so we we’ll work with partners to complete the picture over time.

Tracking influencing factors

It will take a while to see big results from our work and for these headline indicators to change. But by tracking the factors that influence big change we can feel confident we are heading in the right direction.  These factors (known in the trade as Risk and Protective Factors) are the things known to make a difference on the issues we care about. Here are the main ones we are tracking:

 

Lifestage	Issue	Baseline	2025	Current
Ready to have kids	Fewer very young parents	293 mothers	190 mothers	293 mothers
	Increase in completion of Year 12	2573 non-completions	2358 non-completions	2573 non-completions
	Increase in parents employed prior to parenting	Not available yet	Not available yet	Not available yet
Great start in life	Healthy habits during pregnancy: Fewer women smoking in first 20 weeks	824 mothers	618 mothers	775 mothers
	Healthy habits during pregnancy: Fewer women smoking in second 20 weeks	647 mothers	499 mothers	647 mothers
	Fewer expectant mothers overweight or obese	2268 mothers	2016 mothers	2268 mothers
	Adequate antenatal care: fewer mothers with a low number of antenatal visits	499 mothers	209 mothers	Not available yet
	Adequate antenatal care: fewer mothers whose first antenatal visit in in third trimester	271 mothers	233 mothers	Not available yet
	Strong attachment	Not available yet	Not available yet	Not available yet
On track at 3	Parents confident in parenting role: Confidence in identifying milestones	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined
	Parents confident in parenting role: Family is socially connected	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined
	Learning through rich play, talk and reading	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined
On track at 5	Attending a high quality kindergarten program	2194 kids	Not available yet	Not available yet
	Successful transition to big school: adapting to structure and environment of school	3118 children	3399 children	3118 children
	Supportive home learning environment: Parent support for reading	4003	4470	4003
	Supportive home learning environment: Parent support for learning	4155	4403	4155
	Supportive home learning environment: Internet connection at home	3979	3908	3979
	Fully immunised: Children are fully vaccinated at age 5	4413 kids	4470 kids	4413 kids
On Track at 8	Engaged at school: students enjoy school	81% of students	77% of students	81% of students
	Engaged at school: high school attendace	91.2% of students	91.2% of students	91.2% of students
	Supportive home learning	Not available yet	Not available yet	Not available yet
Family Foundations	Lower rates of unemployment	8.9% unemployment	5.6% unemployment rate	6.1% unemployment rate
	Secure housing: rental stress	8603 households	Not available yet	8603 households
	Secure housing: mortgage stress	4598 households	Not available yet	4598 households
	Family wellbeing: Mental health morbidity	Coming soon	Coming soon	Coming soon
	Family Safety – we are looking at how to measure this	Not available yet	Not available yet	Not available yet
A Strong Community	Socially connected and empowered community	Not available yet	Not available yet	Not available yet

 

Other ways to measure success

Data is one way to measure success, but there’s many others. There’s stories of change, changes in the symbolism and narrative of the community and intangibles like the strength of community partnerships and the good-working of the Logan Together movement.  We are working to put all these things into an evaluation framework that can sit alongside the data.

Achievements

Already Logan Together partners have delivered dozens of initiatives that are driving the changes we are seeking.  Check out our partners’ bragging list.