As services approach the end of the year, there is plenty to feel proud of and still a lot to finish. Transition statements, enrolment enquiries and events need attention alongside the everyday work of educating and caring for children.
Educators, service leaders and training professionals across Australia are invited to contribute their experience to the TAFE SA Centre of Excellence in Early Childhood Education and Care, with expressions of interest open until January 2027.
Support from Monash Health helped the service review food provision, share nutrition information with families and identify further health and wellbeing priorities.
A four-week early learning pilot will test the co-designed resource, with a pathway to free national distribution through La Trobe University.
An experience does not need to change each day to be valuable. Sometimes children need another opportunity to work out what interests them.
Before selecting the photographs and writing the final words, ask children what belongs in the story of their year. Their answers may not be what we expect.
From January, community preschools in NSW will face mandatory new conditions for wages and fees, as the government seeks to expand access through existing services.
Queensland’s new commission will bring together Blue Card screening, Child Safe Standards and reportable conduct oversight, with its main functions due to commence in February 2027.