Resources to help you mark the start of the year and share information with families about 2025 programs. A new kindergarten year is an exciting time for families, children and early childhood ...

How a partnership between Chisholm Institute of TAFE and Foundation Learning Centre is helping boost the early childhood education workforce. Chisholm Institute has been working with TAFEs across ...

Free counselling and other services are available for early childhood teachers and educators. The Early Childhood Wellbeing Support Program (ECWSP) is part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to ...

I hope you all had a happy, refreshing festive season, and that you were able to enjoy a more relaxed pace over summer. I also hope that the 2025 kinder year, which kicked off last week, has started ...

The first 4 government-run centres will help families access early childhood education and care. Early Learning Victoria has officially opened the first 4 government-run early learning and childcare ...

Reminder to join a free one-hour webinar on 18 February 2025. As outlined in our December 2024 edition of Early Childhood Update, applications for the Victorian Government’s 2024–25 skilled visa ...

Share these opportunities with both early career and experienced teachers and educators to help develop their careers. We offer a range of professional development programs for early childhood ...

Complete the free program and help provisionally registered teachers to gain full registration. Dates start from 7 February 2025. Registrations are open for experienced teachers looking to support ...

Access our new change management toolkit to help your service deliver more hours of funded kindergarten programs. With the introduction of Pre-Prep, there will be some changes at your service, whether ...

The new system for kindergarten reporting is live. Arrival, the new system replacing the Kindergarten Information Management System (KIMS) for mandatory kindergarten reporting, is now live. In ...

Find out who’s eligible to receive kits, when to expect your order and how to promote them. Our contracted Kinder Kits supplier, Bao&Co, is contacting services to confirm and deliver Kinder Kit orders ...

How the Victorian Educational Leadership Program helped Rachael McBrien revitalise her approach to leadership. Applications for the Term 2 program close 28 February 2025. Feeling unchallenged and ...