Early Learning Services in NSW are receiving only 5 days notice for their Assessment and Rating visits; significantly less than the previous 3 months. It’s a big change! And one which centre leaders might be nervous – or even unhappy – about. Everyone would always like more time, but I think that wh...

Critical reflection is a term which everyone in early childhood would (or should) have heard many times. In our eagerness to do right by our children, reflect the Early Years Learning Framework and comply with the National Quality Standards, we often throw the term “critical reflection” around witho...

What did you think I meant?

This has come up for me so much over the last couple of months.

In fact. Just recently I was watching the show younger and it even came up on there, that one of the characters, who was quite a bad ass has developed a sense of vulnerability after a big failure. But what ...

When you started the process of looking for a child care solution for your family, what was the first thing you thought?

1. There's a centre across the road from my house it will be convenient, let's just enrol there?
2. I need to find a centre that has vacancies? or
3. Let's be organised and make list
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