Start Strong Funding Fee Relief
What this means for families Children in community and mobile preschools Fee relief will continue into 2024. Families may save up to $4,220 a year for eligible 3-5 year old children in eligible community and…
Supporting Children with allergies in Early Childhood Centres.
How Do Allergies Happen? If a child with an allergy is exposed to that allergen, their immune system mistakenly believes it’s harming their body. It overreacts, treating the substance as an invader and trying to…
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Child Car Seat Safety
Child car seats Whenever children are in a car, they must be safely buckled up in child car seats that are correct for each child’s age and size. The Child Restraint Evaluation Program has independent…
Water Safety
Water Safety Whether at home, visiting family and friends or on holiday, it is always important to keep safety in mind when children are in or near water. Drowning is the number one cause of death for…
Settling into Childcare
Settling into Childcare Childcare is a new environment for your child, with new people and new routines. Your child’s transition to child care is more likely to go well if you start getting ready for child…
Starting Kindergarten-How to prepare your child for the change.
Having a child starting kindy is a time of mixed emotions – it’s exciting, worrying, happy, daunting, overwhelming, sad and you may feel a sense of relief. While no amount of advice or information will…
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