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Nominations now open for NSW Aboriginal Child and Family Awards 2020
AbSec - NSW Child, Family and Community Peak Aboriginal Corporation, commonly known as AbSec, has opened nominations for the NSW Aboriginal Child and Family Awards 2020, seeking nominations of individuals and organisations that have made remarkable contributions and outstanding achievements to improving outcomes for First Nations children and families.
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by Freya Lucas
Policy/Practice
COVID-19
UNICEF says ECEC is an essential service during pandemic, calling for consideration
UNICEF Australia has said that access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is critical in order for Australian children to develop, and that the role the sector plays in the lives of children should be seen as essential.
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by Freya Lucas
Policy/Practice
Economics
Businesses join to form Make It Free campaign, lobbying for urgent childcare reform
More than 50 Australian businesses have joined together to demand urgent childcare reform as the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector faces the prospect of an end to transitional support payment measures, and a return to a fee paying and CCS model, as was in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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by Freya Lucas
Economics
Policy/Practice
New Grattan report says cheaper ECEC will lift economy out of recession
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services should be made cheaper to enable more women to do more paid work, and to help lift the economy out of the COVID recession, a new report from The Grattan Institute has outlined.
3 days
by Freya Lucas
COVID-19
Policy/Practice
DESE updates Employment Guarantee rules and expectations - 8 key questions answered
The Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) have provided an update on the rules and expectations around the Employment Guarantee which is embedded as a key condition of participation in the current national Transition Package support measures as well as the new measures announced for Victoria last week.
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by Jason Roberts
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Dear Australia project offers children a chance to record their voices for prosperity
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by Freya Lucas
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Forbes Preschool becomes NDIS provider, strengthening offering to community
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by Freya Lucas
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Sacrifice our health and safety or our income? A Victorian ECT shares her dilemma
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