This is the final report for the five-year evaluation of the Linking Schools and Early Years project. The Linking Schools and Early Years Project (LSEY) was led by the Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH), Murdoch Children's Research Institute at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and ran for six years from 2007 to 2012. The aim of LSEY was to ensure that all children enter the formal education system ready to engage and be successful in school. The project also aimed to ensure that schools are prepared for children of all abilities and backgrounds when they first attend, and that families, services and communities are ready to support the development of children. The project was implemented in three sites in Victoria: Corio/Norlane in the Greater Geelong City Council, Footscray in the City of Maribyrnong and in Hastings in Mornington Peninsula Shire. In each site the project worked with selected schools; feeder early education and care services (ECEC) for these schools; local government; and child and family services to develop new models of working collaboratively in order to address barriers to learning and development. This final evaluation report focuses on the final six months of the project in each of the LSEY sites, paying particular attention to issues and initiatives towards the sustainability of the project in each respective area post funding. As the focus is on the wrap-up of the project, no new quantitative or qualitative data has been collected. The findings from this report, while informed by previous years' evaluations, draw primarily from LSEY project documents provided by the LSEY site facilitators and a focus group with the site facilitators and management from the Centre for Community Child Health. (author abstract)