Jobs and Skills Australia’s regional roadmap identifies childcare access as a barrier to employment and includes early childhood roles in its measure of essential service vacancies.
Incident and near miss records can help early childhood services identify patterns in supervision, staffing and practice. Reviewing those records can also reveal where further attention or changes to practice could reduce risk.
The inaugural initiative will run from 20 October to 20 November 2026. Early childhood providers and training organisations can host free events and contribute their workforce experience.
The final course in Australia’s national child safety training package focuses on leadership and governance. Providers can prepare by checking who needs it, scheduling completion and keeping training records current.
When floods, bushfires or other crises disrupt an early childhood education and care (ECEC) service, someone has to make decisions about staffing, safety, communication and continuity of care. An Australian study suggests that leaders also carry a less visible responsibility: absorbing uncertainty and helping their teams and families manage it.
As Australia looks to evidence-based teaching to improve student outcomes, UNSW researcher Dr Robin Nagy says research should inform teachers’ decisions, not dictate a one-size-fits-all approach.
A child balancing across a log, negotiating a route with a friend or returning to a place after rain may be showing learning that is easy to miss in a conventional assessment record. Bush kinder educators face a familiar challenge: how to document that learning for children and families while preserving the open-ended character of outdoor play.
Milieu Early Education & Care has officially launched its new cookbook, unveiling the project at a waterfront celebration at Aqua Luna and bringing together leaders and professionals from across early childhood, nutrition and hospitality.
Finding a promising approach is only the beginning of changing practice in an early childhood service. Staff need time to understand it, decide how it fits their setting, use it with children and revisit what is working. New findings from the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) put that process, rather than a one-off professional learning session, at the centre of improvement.
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