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Childcare Service Allowing Children To Light Fires

Childcare Service Allowing Children To Light Fires

At a Fitzroy childcare service, children are encouraged in risky play and preschoolers are lighting fires in outdoor fire pits.
Infant Safety Training Requirement For All Working With 0 - 2 Year Olds

Infant Safety Training Requirement For All Working With 0 - 2 Year Olds

 Kidsafe South Australia has announced "Infant Safety Training", a requirement for all staff and carers working with children aged 0 – 2 years.
Free Online Learning For OSHC Educators On Quality Area 2

Free Online Learning For OSHC Educators On Quality Area 2

Early Childhood Australia Learning Hub has recently released a new free online professional development module for NSW OSHC Educators on Quality Area 2 - Children's Health and Safety.
FDC Educator Fined For Being Embarrassed To Tell Parent Child Was Lost

FDC Educator Fined For Being Embarrassed To Tell Parent Child Was Lost

An FDC Educator, from Canning Vale, was recently fined $2000, after failing to tell Parents that she had temporarily lost their 2-year child.
Let's Celebrate NAIDOC Week from 7 - 14 July 2019

Let's Celebrate NAIDOC Week from 7 - 14 July 2019

NAIDOC Week is celebrated from the 7th to 14th July and is held around the country to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The NAIDOC Theme for 2019 is Voice. Treaty. Truth.
3% Increase Now Applies For Educators, ECT's and Trainees Earning Minimum Award Wages

3% Increase Now Applies For Educators, ECT's and Trainees Earning Minimum Award Wages

As of today 01 July 2019, Educators, ECT's and Trainees who are currently earning minimum wages from the Children's Services Award 2010, the Educational Service Teachers Award 2010 or the National Training Wage will now receive a 3% pay increase…
Childcare Providers Unpaid Hundred Of Dollars Over A Fortnight

Childcare Providers Unpaid Hundred Of Dollars Over A Fortnight

After a Human Services Departement error, childcare providers have been out of pocket and left unpaid by hundreds of dollars for over two weeks throughout Canberra and surrounds.
Sydney Childcare Educator Allegedly Sits On Child For Being Disruptive

Sydney Childcare Educator Allegedly Sits On Child For Being Disruptive

In an early childhood centre, in Sydney's south-west, an educator has been photographed allegedly appearing to sit on a preschool child after he was being disruptive during group time.
QLD Workers Allowed To Smoke Near Childcare Services Due To Loophole

QLD Workers Allowed To Smoke Near Childcare Services Due To Loophole

A concerned Parent of a childcare service where her daughter attends, saw employees from a neighbouring business smoking within 5 metres of the centre, even though smoking has been banned within the 5-metre range of all childcare centres in QLD…
ACECQA Extends Recognition As An Equivalent Of Early Childhood Teacher Until 2021

ACECQA Extends Recognition As An Equivalent Of Early Childhood Teacher Until 2021

In June 2019 the ACECQA Board decided to extend an existing transitional measure that recognises registered/accredited primary school teachers who have completed an approved diploma (or higher) education and care qualification as equivalent early childhood teachers until the end of…
ECT's Demanding 49% Pay Increase For $100,000 Salaries

ECT's Demanding 49% Pay Increase For $100,000 Salaries

The Independent Education Union is demanding a 49% pay increase from Fair Work Commission, seeking salaries of up to $101, 767 for it's most experienced ECT's members, arguing that they should be paid the same as primary school teachers with…
Vaccinations Should Be Mandatory For Educators Working With Children

Vaccinations Should Be Mandatory For Educators Working With Children

Even though Australia has high vaccination levels, there has been a high volume of measles outbreaks throughout Australia. The main culprits being unvaccinated people, spreading this highly infectious disease.
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