Published in 2006, the first Success By 6 Report, Community Report Card – A Snapshot of Our Children in Peel, addressed important issues and problems facing children and families living in Peel. It had a galvanizing effect on Success By 6 Peel. For the first time, the influences of family, child health and the community, economic security, safety, child care, and children's school readiness were collectively evaluated in order to provide a more complete picture of how they affect a child's well-being. The report also delivered the troubling message that inadequate support in any of these areas creates barriers to child development that can have long-term, negative consequences for children, their families, and our entire society.

Now, three years later, Success By 6 Peel’s Status of Children 2009 continues the story of Success By 6 Peel and its leadership role in mobilizing and strengthening the community and putting research into action to change young lives for the better.

The Charter Pages
The Peel Children’s Charter of Rights has given us a deeper understanding of the individual, familial, and community factors that are important to children’s development. Using the Charter as a foundation, quantitative and qualitative data have been presented, and when considered together, form a comprehensive picture of existing community assets and challenges. The Peel Children’s Charter of Rights pages present data at Peel Region level and when possible, for its municipalities. Statistics, facts, and anecdotes, called data indicators, give us a benchmark to measure our progress. Data indicators in this report were incorporated based on the availability of data.

Status of Children in Peel 2009


The Service Delivery Areas and Early Development Instrument Reference Manual
This report was designed to support service providers in planning for responsive service delivery. It also captures the current status of Peel children through data and anecdotal evidence. The final pages of the report form a reference manual of 2007 Early Development Instrument (EDI) results and Service Delivery Area (SDA) data. All data presented is from the 2006 Census unless otherwise referenced.

Feedback from service providers on the 2006 Community Report Card was clear - the need for data at smaller levels of geography was necessary to adequately and effectively plan and provide services for children and their families.

Since then, the Success By 6 Peel Evaluation and Accountability Committee, in consultation with service providers, has identified seventy-one local levels of geography, called Service Delivery Areas (SDAs). SDAs are available on the Peel Data Centre website, where they provide Census data by SDA that accurately reflects current service boundaries. SDA profiles on the website feature early years’ data specifically focused on the very young children of Peel. Understanding the characteristics and status of residents can assist service planning, reporting, and analysis. SDAs will also make communicating about areas within Peel Region more effective. The reference manual has a fact sheet of each 0 to 6-specific SDA and Early Development Instrument (EDI) data.

Early Development Instrument and Service Delivery Reference Manual

Introduction
Caledon EDI/SDA Profiles  
Brampton EDI/SDA Profiles 
Mississauga EDI/SDA Profiles 
SDA FAQ/Glossary/References/Acknowledgements 


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“The health, well-being and competence for all communities in our globalized world will determine if we can build tolerant, stable, equitable, prosperous, sustainable societies. Without high-quality early child development programs for all young children, we will have difficulty with the next steps in our experiments in civilization.”
         Dr. J. Fraser Mustard, Early Years Study II