We want to empower you to deliver extraordinary education. Read about our thoughts on the National Quality Framework, high quality early education practice, and more.

Quality Area 2

Mar 2022

Hazard Reporting: Whose responsibility is it?

It's not simply enough to record that there is a hazard - there needs to be a process to report that hazard.

Mar 2022

Do you have a risk assessment for that?

Risk assessments can sometimes feel onerous. There are a multitude of experiences, hazards and events that require risk assessing in our early education and care services and the paperwork can feel a little overwhelming at times. But, we want you to think about risk assessments as being a positive thing. ‍

Quality Area 2

Mar 2022

What's the difference between hazard and risk?

The terms "hazard" and "risk" are used quite a lot in early childhood. But what do they really mean, and what is the difference?

Quality Area 4

Feb 2022

7 Ways to Boost Your Professional Knowledge

Boosting your professional knowledge doesn't need to be hard work, or to require countless hours hunched over a thick research book or sitting in a conference centre. There are so many ways that you can continually work to grow your knowledge and evolve your practice.

Quality Area 7

Feb 2022

Do I need to know ALL the regulations?

The Education and Care Services National Regulations are a key document for every early childhood service and educator. But - it's a big document! How can you possibly know it all? And, more to the point, do you need to know it all? ‍

Quality Area 4

Feb 2022

How to Respectfully Challenge a Colleague

There will be times, in our workplaces, where the need arises to question or challenge what we see. It may be questioning why something is on the program, or asking if the environment is really working the way that it is. Sometimes it may be challenging practice or attitudes that we find concerning or confronting. Some of us may find this easy - happy to be up-front, get the issue out on the table, while for others - it can be really difficult.

Quality Area 4

Feb 2022

Planning Your Professional Growth

The start of a new year is a time for resolutions and goal setting, and although the start of this year has bought some challenges, it remains vital that we reflect on our professional practice, attitudes, skills and knowledge, and take the time to plan for growth. ‍

Quality Area 7

Jan 2022

Can I automate or delegate? That is the question

Do you ever feel like your to-do list is never going to end? One of the biggest challenges that nominated supervisors and educators face, is staying on top of the huge pile of paperwork and tasks that come their way. What can also happen though is that we take on things that we don't really need to. ‍

Quality Area 4

Jan 2022

Where are all the educators?

Our sector is facing a staffing crisis - there's no better way to put it. Services are sharing with us, their sense of overwhelm and frustration as they struggle to find qualified, experienced professionals to fill the almost (at the time of writing, via seek.com.au) 4000 positions in the early education and care sector.

Feature Update

Dec 2021

Why Educators Need a Break This Year More Than Ever!

We’re nearing the end of the year. This time last year, it seemed that a lot of us were relieved to have made it through 2020 - a year like no other, where we had been pushed - or so it seemed at the time - to our very limits. Now, twelve months on, we could be mistaken for thinking we’re in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day.

Quality Area 4

Dec 2021

Are you in breach of the regulations?

Did you know that according to the Queensland Government Education Department, “r170 Policies and Procedures to be followed” was amongst the top five regulatory breaches in the long daycare sector in the state, over the last three quarters? Why is that? Why is it so tricky to follow the policies and procedures that we have in our services? 

Quality Area 4

Nov 2021

Who is reading our policies?

What happens once we have the policies in place? How do we know if they are “lived out” in practice, if they are being understood, and quite simply - if they are even being read?