Future Ready (formerly known as Advance) funds range of activities for secondary school students, including but not limited to: mentoring, supporting students to understand and reach their potential ...

The Early Childhood Update e-newsletter is sent to early childhood teachers and workers, but is open to anyone interested in best practice in early years education and evidence-based teaching ...

Sign up for an online information session and learn about the new system for kindergarten data reporting. In previous editions of Early Childhood Update, we explained ...

We encourage you to start your 2025 workforce planning to help meet the needs of your service. We know how important attracting and retaining high quality staff is, so we’ve developed a range of ...

How we’re building more than 2,600 kindergarten places so more families can access quality early years education. The Victorian Government is delivering more kindergartens right across the state, with ...

Support children to develop resilience, confidence and respectful relationships. The Respectful Relationships initiative is offering free online professional learning for early childhood educators ...

How our ongoing commitment to early childhood education is delivering new early learning centres across the state. As part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to giving children the best start to ...

Invite families and carers to give feedback on their experience accessing MCH services by 17 November 2024. The Victorian Government is calling for parents to take part in a Maternal and Child Health ...

Access resources to help families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds access early childhood education. With the release of the operational policy settings, which will apply to all ...

See how new operational policy settings will shape Pre-Prep and the Best Start, Best Life reforms. From 2026 onwards, new operational policy settings will be in place to support the roll-out of ...

New online submission process to make it easier for funded services to access support. The department has updated the assessment process for the Kindergarten Inclusion Support (KIS) program to make it ...

Recognising 27 outstanding early years organisations, teachers and educators. Following celebrations for Early Childhood Educators’ Day on Wednesday 4 September 2024, we are also pleased to announce ...