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Nurturing young gardeners: Early childhood services shine in 2025 National Kitchen Garden Awards
Australia’s early childhood educators are demonstrating remarkable creativity in kitchen garden learning. This year, four early childhood services from the ACT, Victoria, and South Australia have been selected as finalists in the prestigious National Kitchen Garden Awards, reflecting their dedication to environmental education, wellbeing, and community engagement.
2025-09-11 08:00:23
by Fiona Alston
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Shifting conversations to action: Reimagining child protection in Australia
Every National Child Protection Week, Australians are asked to pause and reflect on what it truly means to keep children safe. Too often, the notion of ‘child protection’ is spoken about as if it begins and ends with statutory services. Keeping children safe is far broader than that, it is everyone’s business. It is shaped by the choices we make every day as families, communities, workplaces, services, and governments. It is about whether we value children not only as the promise of our future, but as full human beings whose safety, wellbeing, and voices matter right now in this very moment.
2025-09-11 08:00:14
by Fiona Alston
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Listening matters: Embedding the voice of the child in ECEC settings
Children’s perspectives often provide the clearest path to enhancing early services and outcomes. The Voice of the Child toolkit a robust, rights‑based framework developed by the Centre for Community Child Health and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, offers early childhood education and care (ECEC) teams practical, ethical guidance to meaningfully involve children under 12 in service planning, delivery, and evaluation.
2025-09-11 07:30:21
by Fiona Alston
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Empowering safeguarding in early childhood: ECA’s comprehensive resource suite
Safeguarding children is at the heart of the National Quality Framework (NQF) and is a key focus of National Quality Standard (NQS) Quality Area 2: Children’s health and safety, as well as Quality Area 7: Governance and leadership
2025-09-11 07:00:57
by Fiona Alston
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Queensland approved provider fined $38,000 after child left unattended on bus
An approved provider in Queensland has been fined $38,000 following an incident where a four-year-old child was left unsupervised on a service-operated bus for approximately 90 minutes after an excursion.
2025-09-11 07:00:31
by Fiona Alston
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Supervision and team culture: Safeguarding trust through shared responsibility
2025-09-09 07:26:32
by Fiona Alston
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Understanding ACECQA’s National Decision Tree: guidance for approved providers, persons with management control and educators
2025-09-08 09:39:57
by Fiona Alston
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Early Childhood Education Minister Jess Walsh honours educators with message of recognition and reform
2025-09-03 08:17:59
by Fiona Alston
