Member Resources

Simple Guides

Being on the Committee

This is a simple guide to being on the management committee for NSW long day care services and preschools.

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Early childhood education theorists

This simple guide introduces you to the best-known early childhood education theorists and how you can further explore new ideas and contemporary theory.

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Implementing the Planning Cycle

This simple guide can support educators to understand and implement the planning cycle. 

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Children's rest and sleep documentation (3-5 years)

The Education and Care Services National Law and the Education and Care Services National Regulations outline requirements to ensure all children are safe while enrolled in early education and care services. Sleep and rest time can be a time when children’s safety may be at risk.

This Simple Guide includes links to safe sleep and rest resources relating to the 3-5yr age group, and a template for pre-rest/sleep check.

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Assessment and Ratings

This simple guide is designed to increase understanding of the Assessment and Ratings process under the National Quality Framework for long day care services, Family Day Care services, outside school hours care services and preschools.

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Approaching difficult conversations with colleagues and managers

In this Simple Guide, we will explore how to prepare for a difficult conversation, key communication skills to employ, how to structure the conversation, and case study examples to show how these skills can be used in familiar scenarios.

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Education & Care Abbreviations

Managing an early education and care service means becoming familiar with the many abbreviations you will encounter. The following guide is designed to help you make sense of them.

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Being Nominated Supervisor

This is a simple guide to the role of Nominated Supervisor under the National Quality Framework (NQF) for centre-based and family day care services.

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Being an Approved Provider

This is a simple guide to the role of an Approved Provider under the National Quality Framework (NQF).

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Compliance

This is a simple guide to compliance for centre-based and family day care services.

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Creating a Professional Development Plan

This simple guide provides a step by step approach to preparing an effective professional development plan for your team or yourself.

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Fraud in Education Services

4 places you might find fraud in an education service and 8 ways you can prevent it.