Regulatory Initiatives

A group of funded projects designed to respond to regulatory priorities identified by the NSW Early Childhood Education Regulatory Authority.

Unpacking Self-Assessment and Quality Improvement webinar series

This series of webinars from Community Early Learning Australia (CELA) was designed to build knowledge and confidence for ECEC services self-assessing against the National Quality Standards.

This course is available to all early childhood educators working in preschools, family day care (FDC), long day care and outside of school hours care services.

Some key resources include:

• an on-demand recording of the webinar

• tools and activity sheet.
  

Family Day Care PD in Your Pocket program

This NSW Family Day Care Association initiative offers live and recorded webinars, podcasts and resource booklets to support FDC services to improve quality of practice and meet the National Quality Standards.

Webinar topics focus on FDC issues including:

• child centred programming and planning
  

• risk management
  

• safe sleep
  

• managing medical conditions
  

• FDC environments.
  

Inclusion initiatives

A group of funded projects designed to uplift provider capacity to support and understand inclusive practices for children with disability, additional learning needs and mulitcultural backgrounds.

Early Childhood Inclusive Education webinar series

This series of 7 interactive webinars from Special Teaching and Research (STaR) outlines the delivery of quality educational programs for children with disability and developmental delays. The webinars are supported by a peer network.

This course is available to all early childhood educators working in preschools, FDC, long day care and outside of school hours care services.

Webinar topics include:

• inclusion in early childhood services

• observations and planning for inclusion
  

• strategies to support inclusion
  

• developing and implementing individual learning plans

• transition to school for children with disabilities and additional needs.

Preschool Multicultural Support Program

This program from Ethnic Community Services Co-operative provides 20 hours of face-to-face multicultural support for educators with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds that need help settling into an early learning environment. It also aims to uplift the cultural competency of early childhood education and care educators.

This program is currently only available to preschools and mobile preschools that are eligible for inclusion support.

Online offerings will soon be made available to all early childhood educators and services. In the 2023-24 financial year, the project will expand to include an online platform of resources and a series of practical webinars.

Understanding and supporting children’s behaviour

This webinar series and accompanying workbook from Pheonix Support teaches educators about understanding and supporting children’s behaviour in early childhood education and care services.

This course is available to all early childhood educators working in preschools, FDC, long day care and outside of school hours care services.

Webinar topics include:

• children's emotional development

• children's brain development

• connections with children

• supporting children's behaviour
  

• working together with families and communities.

IncludED@OSHC

This series of resources and self-paced learning modules were developed with the support of the NSW Government for outside school hours care educators working with children with disability and developmental delays.

Learn about Included@OSHC on the Department’s OSCH Educator website. The modules are featured on the Victorian Government’s website and educators from across Australia are encouraged to access them.