Join Dr. Mary Anne Hall, from EPEC Education, for a FREE webinar as she breaks down the new inappropriate conduct offense. Exploring how this requirement can be embedded in your workplace and be used as a tool to protect children from harm, abuse, and neglect.

OOSH services often feel the tension between compliance and creativity. The law requires services to meet the outcomes of the approved My Time, Our Place, but it does not prescribe how this must be achieved. The NQS sets benchmarks for quality but avoids rigid rules. This flexibility means educators can focus on meaningful, child-led projects and reflective documentation rather than endless paperwork. A few strong examples each year can be enough to demonstrate compliance.

Today, 1 September 2025, marks a pivotal shift in Australia’s early childhood education landscape, with strengthened child safety regulations now officially in force under the National Quality Framework (NQF). These reforms—fast-tracked following the national review of child safety arrangements—aim to close regulatory gaps, improve incident response, and safeguard children in increasingly digital environments.

Early childhood education and care providers may offer only certain types of incentives from 1 January 2023 to secure a child's enrollment.

In response to the Royal Commission regarding institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, The Teacher Accreditation Act 2004 has been amended. From now on the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) will be making decisions about teacher accreditation at all levels, including the early childhood sector.