Hands-on work experience is essential to becoming a child care worker. When you do your Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care (the minimum qualification for working in a child care centre starting last 2014) you need to complete between 80 and 240 hours of workplace based experience in a registered child care centre. Read the full post
If you’re working in child care in Australia, there is one course you MUST do! The Certificate 3 in Children’s Services is THE minimum standard for child care workers from the start of 2014. A lot of you will probably go on to do a Diploma of Children’s Services as well. It’s the logical next Read the full post
By William Cowie If you’re a parent, at some point you’ll probably have to rely on someone else to care for your child. It’s probably easy to trust family and friends with your precious children; you’ve known them for years, you know they care and they might even have had kids of their own so Read the full post
Hope you’re having a great day! Caring for children (whether your own or someone else’s) can be exhausting! Take a break for five minutes and read these words of wisdom, warning, and humour to remind yourself why it’s all worth while: 1. Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to Read the full post
Every year children are seriously hurt or killed unintentionally in “accidents”. As our work health and safety students know, there is no such thing as an accident. Many of these injuries and deaths are completely predictable and preventable with better safety precautions. As a concerned parent or childcare professional, it is worth knowing at least Read the full post
It’s hardly a secret that raising children is an expensive endeavour in modern society. Many families are accustomed to a two-income lifestyle until their first child arrives. The adjustment in income and lifestyle can be quite a shock. In some cases, one parent will quit work to care for the child full time, at the Read the full post
Child care is a hot topic in Australia at the moment. Increasing fees are putting pressure on families while child care providers are struggling to provide the level of care required for our children at an affordable price. Many people have been calling for the government to intervene in the child care market to regulate Read the full post
Child Care Use In Australia According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2008, Australia had approximately 1.5 million children aged 12 years or under in some kind of child care arrangement. About 750,000 attended formal care (government regulated care away from the child’s home, including long day care, family day care, before and/or after Read the full post
Increasing Cost of Child Care in Australia Rising child care costs for Australian families have been a hot topic in 2012, a problem mirrored in many other developed nations. A drive to decrease the ratio of children to carers, improve the pay of child care workers and set minimum standards for education for workers is Read the full post
Obesity in Child Care A recent Canadian study found that young children who attend child care are 50 percent more likely to be overweight than those who are cared for by a parent at home. The researchers from the University of Montreal and CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre studied more than 1,600 families with children Read the full post
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