Goodstart, KU and Gowrie NSW say increased family fee relief will not offset the loss of operational support for preschool programs delivered in long day care.
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.
The end-of-year calendar in an early learning service can fill quickly. Celebrations, transition statements, room changes and preparations for new enrolments all need attention while the everyday work of educating and caring for children continues.
The preferred-operator decision moves Katanning’s integrated hub closer to operation, with lease approval and arrangements for the transition still to be finalised.
Healthy Kindy Kids is extending its reach following a Townsville pilot, with participating kindergartens offering free vision, hearing, speech and language screening.
Support from Monash Health helped the service review food provision, share nutrition information with families and identify further health and wellbeing priorities.
Before relying on a local demand study to plan new places or expand a service, ECEC providers should check that its population and service figures cover comparable areas. Using different boundary editions without accounting for changes can distort the picture of local demand.
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