In an effort to support local early childhood education and care (ECEC) services and schools the Knox and Maroondah areas of Victoria, the Health Promotion team from EACH, a provider of integrated health, disability, counselling and community mental health services in the eastern states of Australia, has been working with local teams on an educational journey to make their services culturally safe and inclusive.

fka Children’s Services (fkaCS) has extended its deepest sympathies to all families, communities and services affected by the bushfire crisis, also offering deep appreciation to the Victorian Fire Services and those firefighters joining the fight from abroad.

As early childhood education and care (ECEC) services around Australia grapple with dealing with the limiting effects of hazardous air pollution arising from ongoing bushfires around the country, one question continues to arise – how do we keep children safe?

Outside school hours care (OSHC) provider Camp Australia has announced that it will support those communities devastated by the recent and ongoing bushfires by providing free holiday care for all Australian emergency services personnel and volunteers for the remainder of the summer school holidays.

Children and educators from across G8 Education’s 476 strong national network of early childhood centres have banded together to host fundraisers in support of communities ravaged by bushfire. To support these efforts, G8 announced yesterday that they would match donations dollar for dollar.