It is now mandatory for Educators in Victoria to report suspicions of sexual abuse as part of Victoria's government's response to the child sex abuse royal commision.
A national competition is being conducted that invites schools/children to work with their local Indigenous community to translate a simple song, "Marrin Gamu" into their language.
For a fear of promoting violence and warlike behaviour, childcare services are banning children from playing games such as “cops and robbers” with toy guns and plastic fake knives.
Educators, ECT's and Trainees who are currently earning minimum wages from the Children's Services Award 2010 or the Educational Service Teachers Award, 2010 will now receive a 3.5% pay increase from the first full pay period.
There has been an increase in boutique style services across Australia, which offer state of the art facilities from daily yoga sessions, to language classes and meals cook by a qualified chef.
Two-year-old Lachlan Mitchell was left unsupervised for seven minutes in his Perth FDC service where he was found face down in the water on November 9th, 2015.
A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is taking legal action against a Sydney childcare operator that allegedly failed to pay two migrant workers for a year of work.
A childcare worker has been banned for working with children after her husband allegedly hit a hit a four-year-old boy in their care, at the New South Wales Family Dare Care Service on July 18, 2016.
The Metro South Health Public Health Unit has confirmed a case of measles, in a child in the Brisbane area. The person was in a number of locations whilst unknowingly infectious. Residents in the Brisbane and Logan areas in particular…
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