The report was compiled by Broadmeadows Uniting Care, and the Centre for Community Child Health at Royal Children's Hospital in collaboration with Hume Early Years Partnership.

It shows local children aged 0-5 had better language, literacy, social and emotional skills since the federal government-funded CfC initiative was introduced in Hume in 2004.

The manager for communities and children at Broadmeadows Uniting Care, Colleen Turner, said the initiative had been successful in increasing participation rates of children in early education programs.

"Before we started implementing the CfC initiative there were only 50 active playgroups running in Hume, but now there are more than 116, including 44 which are explicitly multilingual," she said.

"Progress has also been made in improving parents' knowledge of services in the area and improving accessibility to those services."

Since starting in Hume the CfC operators have worked with more than 3000 families thorough various community projects.

Seven hubs have been located at local primary schools.

Of the almost 1000 parents consulted in the compilation of the report, 82per cent said they had found support by talking with other parents in a range of the CfC projects.

Most parents who responded also said they had made new friends through CfC programs.

Despite the success of the initiative, Ms Turner conceded there was still work to be done to reduce waiting lists for child health services in the area.

"You can never do enough, but we will continue to try and make services available to all families in the local area."