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Rethinking Images of Inclusion - A Picture Book for Children's Services
When you see the word ‘inclusion’ what does it mean to you? How do you go about planning for inclusion and inclusive practises? How do you make your spaces inclusive? How do you represent inclusion and inclusive practises in your setting?
This book engages these questions to help us rethink how inclusion is understood and practised in our everyday work in children’s services.
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Recruitment & Selection Guide
This guide has been developed to assist children’s service to implement and administer robust and structured recruitment and selection processes in order to improve or replace their current systems with a view to maximising the opportunity to attract and retain competent and qualified applicants who bring a mix of skills and abilities to these very important roles. The templates provided can be adapted to suit specific organisational needs.
The step by step process is to assist Directors and Managers to facilitate objective and transparent recruitment and selection processes.
It is straightforward and provides practical advice on the key elements within a recruitment and selection process.
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Love to Learn - A Professional Support Needs Analysis of Child Care Practitioners Across NSW
This report has collated, included and summarised the collective voices of hundreds of child care practitioners across New South Wales. Essentially, it is the most contemporary evidence of professional support needs gaps in New South Wale. The key message is that children’s service practitioners embrace their role as educators, but they too, Love to Learn.
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Contemporary Research Insights
This publication seeks to give you some solutions to these challenges. New and developing research is consistently carried out but it takes time to investigate new research and then translate it into valuable information that contributes to practices and thinking in the early and middle childhood settings. In this first Contemporary Research Insights aspects of the Early Years Learning Framework, Literacy, and Quality Programs are all explored using sound research to form the foundations for practice. Articles have been written by educators from Community Connections Solutions Australia, University of New England, Semann & Slattery and Contact Inc. with the goal of capturing research, highlighting indications for practice and providing a platform for discussion and conversation amongst whole staff teams with broad ranging experience and training.
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Contemporary Research Insights
Reflective Practitioners view research as a necessity to contribute to program innovation and high quality education and care.
In the second issue of Contemporary Research Insights, the articles have been written by educators from Community Connections Solutions Australia, Semann & Slattery, University of New England and Contact Inc. and include current issues such as social disadvantage, outdoor learning, quality learning opportunities embedded in the Early Years Learning Framework and autism.
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Integrated Early Years Provision in Australia
Integrated Early Years Provision in Australia is a report funded by the Professional Support Coordinators Alliance (PSCA).
The report was undertaken by Dr Frances Press, Professor Jennifer Sumsion and Dr Sandie Wong from Charles Sturt University. It defines integration and explores such topics as key characteristics of effective integrated services, workforce issues and professional development. This research document was recently launched by Dr Frances Press at the ECA Conference in Adelaide.
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NSW Professional Support Plan May 2011
The Professional Support Implementation Plan is a comprehensive document that details the professional development and support that will be delivered to eligible children’s services in NSW during 2009-2012 but specifically up to and including June 2012. Children’s Services Central has been contracted
as the Professional Support Co-ordinator (PSC) in NSW by the Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) and is funded by the Australian Government under the Inclusion and Professional Support Program.
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Child Care Staff:
Learning and Growing Through Professional Development
The publication, Child Care Staff: Learning and Growing Through Professional Development, records some of the insights and innovative practices shared by participants from the report, Practice Potentials: Impact of Participation in Professional Development and Support on Quality Outcomes For Children In Child Care Centres, one of the first studies investigating the current context of Professional Development and Support (PD&S), from a national perspective. It draws on information published in the full report as well as records of unpublished case study interviews.
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Discrimination and Children's Services
This free resource provides a general overview of discrimination laws that apply in New South Wales and explains the concepts of discrimination, harassment, victimisation and vilification. The focus is on best practice and practical guidance for children’s services on operating a non-discriminatory service that promotes equal opportunity.
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Exploring Multiculturalism, Anti Bias and Social Justice in Children's Services
A resource by Miriam Giugni which offers an introduction to ideas that will assist staff in children’s services to think about the importance of multiculturalism in our everyday work and how this links to anti bias, equity and social justice.
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