Early Childhood Education and Care

Victoria has introduced compulsory minimum standards that apply to organisations that provide services for children, in order to help protect children from all forms of abuse. The Child Safe Standards form part of the Victorian Government’s response to the Betrayal of Trust Inquiry. Consistent with the Betrayal of Trust Inquiry’s recommendations, the aim of the […]

The weight debate goes on... The association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and child development has been recently investigated in over seven and a half thousand South Australian children at school entry. Unlike many previous studies which combined groups of both thin and healthy weight children as the baseline, this study differentiated between thinness and [...]

Who trained the early childhood educators who care for your children … your grandchildren … your nieces and nephews? Why is it so important? It’s a well proven fact that the foundations for a person’s life successes, health and emotional wellbeing lie in early childhood. If we get it right in the early years, we […]

Finally, we’ve finished getting our new materials ready for delivering the new releases of the Certificate III and Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care. The following table explains what’s changed:

Back on the eleventh of September, we posted that we were recruiting a new ECE trainer/assessor, to take over from our highly esteemed trainer/assessor Mrs Anne Kaa. So, we have two BIG things to announce and, they are so momentous, it’s hard to decide on which one we should post first. Chronological order would probably […]

Excellent results in ACECQA’s Annual Report in the number and proportion of approved services in Victoria with a quality rating, by quality rating level, as of 30 June 2015. Significant improvement required – 0 Working Towards NQS – 610 (21%) Meeting NQS – 1318 (46%) Exceeding NQS – 934 (33%) Excellent rated – 6 TOTAL […]