1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (756+ words) While tours have always played an important role in the enrolment journey, the expectations families bring with them are changing. Greater access to information, increased awareness of quality standards, ongoing cost-of-living pressures and heightened public discussion around children's safety have…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (700+ words) Across Australia, rising housing costs, inflation, childcare expenses and broader financial uncertainty are prompting many families to carefully consider when to have children and whether to expand their family. While family planning decisions are deeply personal and influenced by a…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (856+ words) All of this places early childhood educators under the spotlight, resulting in additional safety training and limits on use of personal devices, such as mobile phones when working with children. But none of this addresses the policy and structural change…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1474+ words) So can a survey, a voting chart, a group meeting, a reflection wall or a clipboard asking children and young people what they would like to do next week. But none of these, on their own, are children and young…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (665+ words) The report finds that climate education is not adequately addressed in current policy and is essential for preparing young people. It also records strong community support for giving climate adaptation equal priority with emissions reduction, strengthening intergenerational responsibility and investing…...

3+ day, 55+ min ago   (527+ words) As educators, families and community members, we play an important role in creating environments where children's identities are not only acknowledged but celebrated every day. Children's Week is an opportunity to recognise children as active citizens with voices, rights and…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (681+ words) When policies feel disconnected from the people expected to use them, they risk becoming documents that are acknowledged during induction, stored in a folder and rarely revisited. Child Safe Standard 10 encourages organisations to ensure their child safety policies and procedures…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (506+ words) In her resignation statement, Ms Musk said she was increasingly concerned about the direction of governance and warned that diminishing independent oversight risked undermining public confidence in institutions responsible for protecting vulnerable children. According to evidence presented during the inquiry,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (423+ words) This raises an important question for the next phase of reform: how do we ensure safeguarding approaches consider not only compliance but also broader system design? Safety has been designed as a compliance problem. It's a systems design problem. That's…...

2+ week, 46+ min ago   (553+ words) Families are children’s first and most important relationships. From the earliest years, children develop their sense of safety, belonging and identity through the interactions, routines and connections they experience with the people around them. For early childhood education and care…...