Resources & Useful Links
The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) is the national authority and are working to help our early childhood education and care sector, governments and the community prepare to improve the quality of services.
Child Care Subsidy System - CCS. Assistance to help you with the cost of child care. CCS replaced Child Care Benefit and Child Care Rebate when they stopped on 1 July 2018. To find out more, click the button below.
An Education and Care Regulatory Authority regulates and assesses children’s education and care services.
Department of Social Services provides child care assistance packages to families to assist with their child care costs.
The startingblocks.go.au is Australia's online child care portal. On this website you will find information on different types of child care and how to get assistance with the cost of child care. You can also search a database to find child care centres in your local area. In many cases, you will also be able to find the services' vacancy and fee information.
The Department provides a range of child safety and family support services to Western Australian individuals, children and their families, from the Kimberley to the Great Southern regions of the State.
Early Childhood Australia (ECA) has been a voice for young children since 1938. We are the peak early childhood advocacy organisation, acting in the interests of young children, their families and those in the early childhood field.
The national peak body for Family Day Care in Australia that supports and advocates Family Day Care sector.
Support and advocate family daycare in Western Australia.
Kidsafe WA is the lead non-government, not-for-profit, charitable organisation dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injuries.
The Department of Health provides a number of functions to support the delivery of health services by the area health services across the State.
Parenting WA helps parents and carers keep up-to-date on information and events about parenting in Western Australia.
The Raising Children website is produced with the help of an extensive network including the Australian Government.
A new teachers guide to help educate young children about how to use the Triple Zero Service has been launched. The guide supports educators to teach children how to identify, react to and report emergencies.
Go for 2 fruit and 5 Veg – The National Go for 2&5™ Campaign was launched to provide families with reliable, practical and consumer friendly information on the importance of healthy eating and physical activity to maintain a healthier lifestyle.
Staying Healthy in Child Care provides simple and effective methods for minimising the spread of infections for many common childhood diseases encountered in child care organisations and the home.
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG) has produced a great free guide for avoiding holiday boredom — without resorting to TV or computer games. Outdoors or indoors, no-cost or low-cost, excursions, trips, in the car, make-believe, craft or creative, this guide has all sorts of fun suggestions.