Annual Early Years Awards 2010 Annual Early Years Awards have been a great opportunity for communities and agencies to highlight and celebrate the considerable work a wide variety of partnerships have undertaken. This is a chance for organisations, early years services and schools to be recognised and rewarded for exceptional contribution to improving health, learning, development and wellbeing of children from birth to 8 years of age and partnerships approaches.
There are two areas of nomination aligned to the Blueprint for Education and Early Childhood Development priorities.
- Better Access to Early Years Services
Under this category nominations will be required to focus on system improvements that increase access to high quality early years services and/or develop an integrated approach to the learning, health and development of children 0-8 years.
- Partnerships with families and communities
Under this category nominations will be required to focus on building parental capacity to create nurturing home environments and/or creating child and family friendly communities or services.
Nominations close on Friday 20 August 2010. For information about the Early Years Awards, guidelines and applications please visit www.education.vic.gov.au/earlyyearsawards.
A draft Victorian Early Years Learning and Development FrameworkTo read KPV’s response to the draft
Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework click
here. Thanks to our members for their contribution to the response.
KPV Victorian State Budget submission
KPV has released its Victorian State Budget submission for 2010/2011. The submission outlines wide ranging priorities for government spending that KPV believes will improve outcomes for Victorian children.
Click here to download a copy of the KPV Victorian State Budget submission.
National Quality Agenda: proposed reforms announcedThe Commonwealth has recently announced a number of proposed reforms to enhance quality in early childhood education and care. The Commonwealth have released a
fact sheet and a
Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) which outline the proposed reforms.
KPV has produced a short
discussion paper to assist parents and early childhood services to work through the National Quality Agenda.
Swine Flu H1N1
For the latest update on H1N1 Influenza (Human Swine Flu) follow the link to the Victorian Health website
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