In 2025, KU Children’s Services proudly celebrates a milestone achievement, KU has been recognised as an Employer of Choice for the tenth consecutive year. Since first receiving this prestigious ...
Each year, the Affinity Education Awards provide a powerful platform to recognise the educators driving quality and care across. The 2025 ceremony, held in December, celebrated outstanding educators, ...
The release of the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021–2030: Third Annual Reportreinforces the Australian Government’s commitment to building a safer future for ...
Queensland’s Kindergarten Funding program continues to evolve as a key mechanism to expand access to quality early childhood education and care (ECEC). From 1 January 2026, updated funding category ...
With over 40 years of experience in early childhood education, I have witnessed firsthand the joys and challenges faced by families and educators across Australia. My journey has taken me through ...
Across the early childhood profession, our language is constantly evolving. We reflect deeply on the words we use; how they shape identity, how they frame relationships, and how they influence the way ...
With exposure to severe weather events such as summer storms known to have a significant  impact on children’s physical, mental and learning development, families, carers and educators  are encouraged ...
This article follows on from my earlier piece, Who should work with young children?, where I explored how the dispositions we value in those who work in early childhood education, shape not only who ...
In a move signalling growing global interest in early childhood development technology, parenting tech company Nanit has secured US$50 million in new funding to expand its AI-powered systems. The ...
Parenting is the ultimate learn-on-the-job gig. That’s why Raising Children Network has launched a  series of videos to give Australian parents and carers quick and entertaining ways to get trusted ...
Looking back at the changes in how we deliver early learning since the 1990's,  I'm back tracking what sent us down the proverbial toilet. Trying to think objectively about it , it's evident to me ...
Data from Torrens University Australia’s Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) shows that almost one in four Australian children start school developmentally vulnerable, with little ...