Child Care Courses Maitland and Newcastle
ENROL NOW- Atkinson Training and Development
CHC30708 Certificate III and CHC50908 Diploma Of Children’s Services Courses.
Limited places left at our Maitland and Newcastle colleges.
Courses start Newcastle Feb 1st and Maitland Feb 2nd 2011.
No Previous experience or HSC required. Course consists of 2 days in class (9am-3pm) 1 day at centre placement and study at home
Fun Learning environment. Come and join us for a great year and a great career.
For more information Contact (02) 4926-1092
Safety and Nutrition
Below are some great links relating to safety and nutrition
- standards-331-food-safety-programs-for-vulnerable-persons-guidelines
- queensland-government-food-safety-plan-for-childrens-services-fsp
- nsw information-on-food-safety-programs
- dietry-guidelines-for-children-and-adolescents
- dietry-guidelines-for-australians
- NEW NSW-DOCS-2010-childcare-cooks-qualification-requirements
For further information regarding safety and nutrition why not attend one of our workshops relating to safe food practices and nutritionally balanced food. Check out our workshop calender www.atkinsontraining.com/calender
Indigenous Literacy week
Introducing the Great Book Swap in celebration of
Indigenous Literacy Week
21st - 27th August
The Indigenous Literacy Project (ILP) is a partnership between The Australian Book Industry and The Fred Hollows Foundation
Click on the link below for more information
http://www.indigenousliteracyproject.org.au/About/Index.aspx
Put your hands up for Quality
This is the most important time to “Put your hands up for quality” in our early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector
Let the Federal Government knowthat we want and need quality for our future Prime Ministers, Nurses, Mechanics, Taxi drivers etc
Send an e-card http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/make_your_vote_count_2010_federal_election_ecard.html
Make your vote count!!!
Election News - What are they promising in relation to childcare?
So what are the parties promising in relation to childcare? If your anythinglike me you really cant wait til August 21st…. Then the campaigning and updates of polls are over and we will then have government, maybe even a change in government making decisions for us all.
Care for Kids have outlinned what each party is promising at this time of the election. I have attached their findings below.
Coalition
- Will commit an additional $89 million for initiatives to make child care more affordable and help ensure the quality of care.
- Will reintroduce the indexation of the Child Care Rebate to help eligible families meet their child care costs. The Child Care Rebate covers 50 per cent of out-of-pocket child care expenses for approved child care up to the annual cap of $7,500.
- For those parents receiving the maximum amount of the Child Care Rebate, indexation of the payment will provide an additional $300 per year for every child in care.
- Will seek to have Child Care Rebate paid weekly and directly to child care providers
- Will reintroduce $12.6 million of Occasional Care funding cut by the Rudd/Gillard Government, which will give parents greater flexibility and part-time access to child care places in times of emergency or unforeseen need.
- The Coalition will not proceed with Labor’s new National Rating system for child care and early childhood education services.
- Will re-establish the Federal Planning and Advisory Committee to restore order and rationality to the establishment of new accredited child care facilities. The Committee will assess whether the establishment or expansion of child care centres is warranted, subject to the unmet need in catchment areas.
Will commit an additional $89.25 million over the forward estimates towards increasing these child care measures. This funding will be provided from the nearly $24 billion in recurrent savings that have been identified by the Coalition over the forward estimates.
Labor
- The Gillard Labor Government recognises that the early years are critically important. If re-elected we will invest $17.1 billion over the next four years in early childhood education and child care.
- We will continue to pay Child Care Rebate up to 50% of parent’s out-of-pocket expenses up to a maximum of $7,500 a year. As a result of these changes, child care costs to parents fell by over 20 per cent according to ABS figures.
- The Gillard Labor Government will move to pay Child Care Rebate fortnightly from 1 July 2011, so that parents get this important assistance at the same time they need to pay their child care bills. Parents will be able to choose to have this assistance paid to their child care service and receive the rebate as a direct deduction to their child care bill.
- If re-elected the Gillard Labor Government will implement the new National Quality Standard, which will ensure a consistent quality of child care and early education across the country.
- We will improve staff to child ratios so that each child gets more individual care and attention and we will improve staff qualifications, so that staff can lead activities that help children learn and develop.
- A re-elected Gillard Labor Government will establish a new national body – the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority – to monitor the quality of child care across the country and provide information and assistance to services.
- We will also introduce a quality ratings system so parents know the quality of care on offer across different services and services will know where they need to improve.
- We will continue to fund an unlimited amount of child care places across the country. This enables new child care services to set up and existing child care services to expand, to meet the needs of local communities.
- A re-elected Gillard Labor Government will continue our investment of $970 million to 2013 so that every child has access to 15 hours a week of preschool or kindergarten in the year before school by 2013.
The Prime Minister and the Minister for Early Childhood Education, Child Care and Youth will be making further announcements before Election Day about how the Gillard Labor Government will further expand their commitment to Early Childhood Education and Child Care.
Greens
- If elected the Greens will support nationally consistent Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) standards with more highly qualified staff and lower carer-to-child ratios of at least 1:3 for children aged 0-2, and 1:4 for children aged over two and smaller groups.
- If elected the Greens will support a Productivity Commission inquiry to look into the payment of services to work out the most cost-effective method of service delivery.
- If elected the Greens will establish a Capital Grants Fund of $200 million over four years ($50 million per year) to allow individual community centres to apply with quotes for capital grants work to build infrastructure.
- If elected the Greens will establish a Co-op Childcare Fund to provide $10m in grants for local, small and medium businesses to collectively establish childcare facilities for their employees. This fund could see up to 100 new centres established for around 1500 children.
- If elected the Greens will fight for more publicly funded, community-based and not-for-profit child care facilities, especially in areas of high unmet demand or growth and areas of high socio-economic need. The new National Quality Framework on ECEC must guarantee a place for all children under 3 by 2012.
- If elected, the Greens will ensure that their initiative to have fortnightly payments of the childcare rebate commences as soon as possible.
“The Greens understand education does not start in primary school but in the earliest years of life, so the provision of quality, affordable accessible care is a necessity,” Senator Hanson-Young said.
Go to CareforKids Social to share your thoughts on child care policy.
Introducing eHow
I have been searching on the net of late and have found a site that can actually give me answers to my questions, especially relating to the computer. It is called eHow.
Below is a link to a page that i have found to be very useful, it gives you step by step instructions on how to…
This link is How to develop Phonological Awareness in Preschoolers
http://www.ehow.com/how_2094291_develop-phonological-awareness-preschoolers.html
Jump on and learn something new
New AQTF Standards - Vetab
New AQTF Standards introduced
The new Australian Quality Training Framework (AQTF) Essential Conditions and Standards for Initial Registration and Continuing Registration of Training Organisations were approved by the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment in late June for implementation from 1 July 2010.
The new standards will be presented to the Vocational Education and Accreditation Board (VETAB) at their meeting on 2 August for formal endorsement prior to their implementation in NSW. It is anticipated that audits conducted after 1 September 2010 will be against the new AQTF Standards.
The Conditions and Standards were revised to strengthen the AQTF and provide additional protection for all students undertaking vocational education and training in Australia.
Key features:
- Strengthened requirements in areas of financial viability, financial management, fee protection and governance conditions
- Compliance with the Conditions of Registration will now be audited in the same way that compliance with the Standards is audited
- An organisation must comply with the Essential Conditions and Standards for Continuing Registration at the date that it is approved for registration
- Non-compliance with the new Essential Conditions and Standards may result in a range of sanctions being placed on the Registered Training Organisation (RTO), which may include additional conditions being placed on an RTO’s registration, an RTO being de-registered, or an application for registration being rejected.
Implementation of three elements of the new AQTF has been put on hold until 3 January 2011. These are:
- Student fees paid in advance (Condition 5)
- the use of an AVETMIS compliant system (Condition 6)
- the use of a Unique Student identifier (Condition 6)
RTOs need to be compliant with all other aspects of the new AQTF from the date it becomes effective.
You can download copies of the new AQTF Standards from the training.com.au website.
Sourced: VETAB eNewsletter - July 2010 - Issue no.10
Government funding now available
Yes that’s right The NSW State Government is funding training for:
Advanced Diploma in Children’s Services
If you are competent in Diploma of Children’s Services you may be eligible
Call now as enrolments are filling up fast 49261092 admin@atkinsontraining.com Advanced Diploma in Children’s Services is a funded course through the NSW State Training Productivity Places Program for existing workers This course is targeted at people who are in or would like to be in a management or leadership role in Children’s Services. Upon completion of the Advanced Diploma you will have developed knowledge and skills in a range of areasA bit of Fun
Only takes about 2 seconds, it originally came from an orthopedic surgeon.This will confuse your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but, you can’t. It’s pre-programmed in your brain!
1. While sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction. And there’s nothing you can do about it ….
Yoga for children
Children’s
Yoga
We all are aware of the benefits of Yoga for adults but what about our children?
We here at Atkinson Training beleive that children are confident and involved learners - EYLF, they are exploring what their bodies are capable of, appreciate and enjoy body movement
We have a workshop on
Tuesday 20th July at 630-830pm
with Yoga instructor Penny
Hurry places are filling up fast
02 4926 102
For information on other workshops available pleas erefer to our calender on http:// www.atkinsontraining.com/calender