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Sector Updates

Children’s Week 2026: Language as a Right

16 October 2026

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Children’s Week 2026: Language as a Right This year’s Children’s Week theme, “Children have the right to use their own language, celebrate their culture and practise their religion,” is drawn…

Working with Children Check Changes

15 October 2026

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Working with Children Checks Changes: What Early Childhood Services Need to Know Keeping children safe is a shared responsibility. From 19 October 2026, important changes to Victoria’s Working with Children…

Thriving Kids

7 October 2026

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Thriving Kids: What Early Childhood Educators and Teachers Need to Know Early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers play an important role in supporting children’s learning, development and wellbeing. As the…

Updated EC PROTECT Resources and Child Safety Guidance Now Available

12 August 2026

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The Victorian Government has published updated EC PROTECT resources, including a revised suite of materials and the new Four Critical Actions for identifying and responding to child abuse. The updated…

Every Language, Every Child

5 December 2025

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As we reflect on October’s Bilingual Child Month, fka Children’s Services is taking a moment of reflection to explore what it means to be a multilingual child in today’s early…

NQF Child Safety Changes Information sheet

14 August 2025

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NQF Child Safety Changes From 1 September 2025 and January 2026 In December 2023, ACECQA published the Review of Child Safety Arrangements under the NQF (the Review), undertaken at the…

New Child Information Sharing Resources available

4 June 2025

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Two new resources have been created in partnership with the Child Information Sharing Scheme and the Victorian Department of Education to support early childhood professionals to build and maintain collaborative…

Best Start, Best Life: 2025 Educational Leaders Conference

4 June 2025

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The second Best Start, Best Life: Educational Leaders Conference was held on Friday 28 March 2025 and brought together more than 1,500 early childhood Educational Leaders, experts and practitioners from…

Nominate now for the Victorian Early Year Awards!

30 May 2025

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This year, the Department of Education’s Victorian Early Years Awards (VEYA) are celebrating 20 years of recognising the outstanding work of early years professionals to improve the health, learning, development…

ECA Podcast Episode 37: Diving into Victoria’s Child Information Sharing Scheme Part 2

23 May 2025

fka Children’s Services is pleased to share the latest episode of Early Childhood Australia’s (ECA) Podcast Series, featuring our own Ashley Howden, Manager of Social Inclusion Pedagogy and Practice. In this…

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