The Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) is a not-for-profit, member-funded organisation advocating for the future of Australia's children.
We work on behalf of long day care owners and operators to ensure families and their children have an opportunity to access affordable, high quality early learning services throughout Australia.
ACA is proud to support Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day - Day For Daniel. Held annually on the last Friday of October, Day for Daniel endeavours to raise awareness of child safety, protection, and harm prevention, while honouring the memory of Daniel Morcombe.
We’re asking early learning services to participate in this event, which takes place this year on Friday 29th October.
Day for Daniel offers age-appropriate education for our children through child safety and protection initiatives to help empower children to ‘Recognise, React and Report’ if they feel something is not right.
On August 10, 2021, the NSW Department of Education announced that the Child Safe Standards for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services will soon be legislated. This single message generated a wave of confusion and anxiety among early learning services.
In order to provide some clarity on this matter, our friends at Childcare Centre Desktop have kindly provided an update on the status of the roll-out below.
In summary, Childcare Centre Desktop advises that this and confirm it should not be viewed as an additional legislation requirement equating to more policies and more work for services.
As part of review of the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia, the second stage of the Approved Learning Frameworks (ALFs) Update project has begun.
The research team are seeking feedback from the early learning sector to ensure the ongoing currency and relevance of the Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.
You can watch a video outlining this research project here.
The following article is written by Mark Evans, from ACA Partner Child Care Centre Desktop:
Why would anyone in their right mind own and operate a small business? In particular; an early education and care service?
In the beginning the answer is easy. There is the dream of not only being involved in a vocation that you love but also the independence, ‘calling your own shots’, building something bigger than yourself, supporting families and the community - and of course providing care and education to young Australians in the early years.
You get to pave the way and put your own special touches onto what can be argued as one of the most important services available today anywhere in the world.