We are working outside on a beautiful winters day. There are four tables set up with art (scissors, pens, magazines and glue); Uno cards; a giant tub of Lego and an assortment of small block and wooden figurines.

Lately it seems that every second post on Early Childhood social media pages is someone selling something to make things “easier” or people asking for new ideas to “extend” children’s thinking.

First Years Early Childhood Consulting and Vegepod have teamed up to bring healthy eating and sustainability to Early Childhood Services. The concept of ‘patch to plate’ is often a foreign concept for young children, so we are working to make

No one understands more than those in the front line, of the Early Childcare sector that the first five years of a child’s life is the most critical period toward their development of self, in conjunction with establishing connections toward

Welcome to our new edition of the Quality Area Newsletters. Apologies for the delay, it seems like life just keeps moving in the fast lane. Never mind though, we are back on track and ready to look into Quality Area

First Years Early Childhood Consulting and Vegepod have teamed up to bring healthy eating and sustainability to Early Childhood Services.

Welcome to the newest edition of First Years Early Childhood Consulting quality area newsletter. This issue we look at Quality Area 4, staffing arrangements. Quality area 4 is broken into 2 standards and 4 elements, and focuses on 2 important

Welcome to First Years Early Childhood Consulting’s third Quality Area Newsletter. The last two have been met with such overwhelming positivity, we thought we would keep going.

Children’s health and safety sounds pretty important right? However, a recent ACECQA (2017) report showed that this area was the third lowest area for meeting overall, with 60% of all rated services meeting this area and 23% exceeding this area.

Before we start to discuss the changes to the National Quality Standards that will be applied in 2018, we thought we would look over the current National Quality Standards and provide provocations for educators to think about their practices and

First Years specialises in supporting services throughout the assessment and rating process. Although achieving the standards can be done in different ways, we have devised some top tips for those educators who may not have gone through the process before,

The team at First Years has recently received lots of enquiries on how to incorporate loose parts in the environment.

Walking down my local street this week and I saw this in the window of a local café. A rating system that tells customers how the particular café has met a set of standards and regulations to achieve a certain

Injuries and accidents at day care centres sent more than 1000 Australian kids to hospital in just one year, government figures have reportedly revealed.

We hope you had a great and refreshing break over the holiday period and now you’re feeling energised to take on 2017.