Early Learning Review For the early childhood sector

With disease-free sandpits now on the national agenda, all parents might have to support child vaccination. But this doesn’t mean many aren’t worried about it. The latest Australian Child Health Poll, Vaccination: Perspectives of Australian parents, bears this out. Conducted by researchers ...

Margaret Carey is the director of Clovelly Child Care Centre, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. She has worked in early childhood education for over 25 years in a variety of roles, from cooking to art teaching. On Wednesday 8 March 2017 ...

Scotland’s longest-running personality study recently found that who we are changes over our lifetimes. Perhaps child psychotherapist Ruth Glover read the study, published in Psychology and Ageing. She took it a step further, arguing that even if children begin life ...

For far-reaching International Women’s Day, a chat between an early childhood leader, an anti-poverty spokeswoman and a gender equality researcher fittingly included a spectrum of gendered concerns. Sam Page, chief executive of Early Childhood Australia, Cassandra Goldie, chief executive of the ...

Along with the usual mailbox detritus, residents of the Adelaide electorate received a surprising letter on Thursday 9 March 2017. It was from their local MP, and the shadow minster for early childhood education and development and TAFE and vocational education, Kate ...

Do you and your colleagues share a definition of junk food? 1000 childcare workers, surveyed by researchers from Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University, didn’t. Some thought sausages, high in saturated fat and salt, were a naughty treat. For others, these ...

Hundreds of childcare workers across the country are set to walk off the job on International Women’s Day to protest their pay rates, urging the Turnbull government to help. Early childhood educators will urge the federal government to include policies ...

In 1930, we had trampolines. Thirty years later, we got Transformers. In the 90s, it was all about the underwater walkie-talkie. Now, the latest iteration of child-designed toys is, of course, an app. Developed by 5-to-7-year-olds, in conjunction with social science ...