Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children during transportation is a critical responsibility for all education and care services. Under the Education and Care Services National Regulations, every service that provides or arranges transportation for enrolled children must have appropriate policies, procedures, risk assessments, written authorisations, and supporting resources in place. These documents must not […]
Key Components of Effective Supervision
Adequate supervision is critical in ensuring child safety within Early Childhood Services. Recent media coverage has highlighted the importance of maintaining effective supervision at all times, reinforcing the need for educators to remain vigilant, responsive and proactive in preventing incidents and ensuring children’s safety and wellbeing. Supervision is a key component of the National Quality […]
Supporting Safe Administration of Medication
Are your educators aware of the correct procedures and practices for administering medication in compliance with regulations 92-96? The National Regulations outline clear requirements for the administration of medication, including authorisations, documentation and correct administration practices. Correct administration of medication reduces the risk of errors that could result from incorrect dosages or types of […]
Policy Review Routine
All tasks associated with the accuracy, relevance and delivery of your childcare service policies takes time…and a decent chunk of your sanity. Childcare Centre Desktop takes pride in our strong and robust Policy Review System. We are committed to ensuring each policy is updated annually to meet compliance requirements. Reviewed by our expert Policy Review […]
Your Regular Newsletter To Families Done For You
Our newsletter resource is the perfect ‘time smart’ solution to provide a relevant and informative publication to your families each month. We’ve already researched and submitted 80% of the content for you, left space to submit service specific information and uploaded it to our newsletter library so you can download and publish at your convenience. […]
Safe Sleep
This week is Safe Sleep Week where Red Nose Australia raises a National Awareness Campaign to help save little lives while providing practical advice to parents and caregivers to help reduce the risk of sudden and unexpected death in infancy (including SIDS and fatal sleep accidents). Red Nose Australia is exploring their Six Safe Sleep […]
Managing a positive case of Covid-19 in ECEC settings
There has been a significant increase in transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in all states and territories over the past few weeks. With ECEC services ready to reopen their doors to children this week, and OSHC services operating for vacation care, management will be wanting to know what risk-based strategies to implement to […]
Childcare Centre Desktop completes restructure as new strategic investor prepares to rapidly innovate
Childcare Centre Desktop, the online resource library focused on early childhood education and care (ECEC) documentation that supports services meet their operational and compliance responsibilities, has confirmed the completion of a restructure that will see majority ownership transfer to a new strategic investor as it lays the foundation for a new frontier in childcare software. […]
Child Safe Standards Scheme – NSW
The Child Safe Standards Scheme was passed by NSW Parliament on 10 November 2021. Under the new Scheme, child-related organisations including education and early childhood, will be required to implement the 10 Child Safe Standards. Under the legislation, the Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG) has more power to monitor and investigate how organisations implement […]
Reconciliation Week 2020
Reconciliation Week 27 May- 3 June 2020 A key practice in the learning frameworks of early childhood education and care is the notion of cultural competence. This applies to all cultures within our services and particularly as one of our guiding principles from the Education and Care National Law, the cultures of Aboriginal and Torres […]