Save The DateWED 4 SEP 2024
Save The DateWED 4 SEP 2024
Save The DateWED 4 SEP 2024
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Many thanks to those of you who posted your photos of celebrations on the Early Childhood Educators’ Day 2023 photo gallery!
If you missed it you can view some of the many photos taken during the week of Early Childhood Educators’ Day here.
Below are the winners of this year’s give-aways:
Early Childhood Educators
Five early childhood educators – one from each of the following services – have won a personalised Cargo Crew apron:
- Tammy S of Manly, QLD
- Michelle L of Mount Luisa, QLD
- Katie N of Unley, SA
- Laura H of Sandstone Point, QLD
- Michelle Y of Chermside West, QLD
- Anna S of Randwick, NSW has won the $250 Prezee gift card provided by Tanda.
- Rachel S of Kongorong, SA has won the $200 gift card from The Iconic provided by Child Care Super.
Family
- Paul S from Narre Warren in Victoria has one the family pack of aprons.
Early Learning Service Provider
- Tall Tree Early Learning in Banksia Grove, WA has won the $250 gift voucher from Cargo Crew.
Congratulations to the winners! We hope you enjoy your give-aways and make good use of them.
Happy Early Childhood Educators’ Day !
Today is a very special day for Australia’s early childhood educators, as we recognise and celebrate the vital role they play in the lives of young children and their families. At the local level, we hope early learning services and their families say thank you to their early childhood educators in their own special way.
At the national level, we would like to let each and every one of Australia’s early childhood educators know how much they are appreciated, but we can’t do it alone!
As usual, we have called upon a number of our early learning stakeholders to say a few words.
We’re very grateful for their support and we thank them for their contributions to the video below.
We encourage all early learning service providers to share this special video with their team of educators, as part of their celebrations today and across the week.
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"Australia says thank you" video 2023
To each & every one of our early childhood educators, we say… THANK YOU.
Happy Early Childhood Educator’s Day from Child Care Super
We’re delighted to share with you a few words from our 2023 Sponsor Child Care Super:
“Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be – The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.”
– Janusz Korczak
Being part of the village that raises a child is an incredibly rewarding role, but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy one. And while at Child Care Super we know that educating and caring for children is a huge responsibility, sometimes the individuals who work in early learning and childhood education don’t get the credit they deserve.
That’s why we’re super proud to be sponsoring Early Childhood Educator’s Day in 2023 – we want to shout our gratitude, admiration and awe from the rooftops and make sure everyone else knows it too!
As a super fund, our members are mainly women, which makes sense given early childhood education and care is a female-dominated industry. Historically, women have been less celebrated and appreciated by society for the work they do, both at home and in the workforce. And we’re all about changing that. It’s another reason why we’re so excited to be supporting ECE day and celebrating the incredibly smart, hardworking women in the early learning industry.
To all of you – thank you. Thank you for the work you do to lay the foundation for the learning and development of Australian children. The impact you have on the lives of the children and families you work with is immense. We know those communities rely on you and we’re grateful for everything you do to support them.
To any employers in the industry who use Child Care Super as a default fund – we thank you too. We hope that today you are celebrating your wonderful staff and supporting them in any way you can.
Don’t forget that anyone who is a member of Child Care Super has access to Virtual Care, an app from our insurer Metlife, that’s designed to provide members and their immediate families with a range of expert medical and wellness services.
Using Virtual Care your employees can receive in-depth, confidential medical reviews from a doctor, as well as the option to submit online questions to GPs and paediatricians. They can also speak to a mental health clinician at no charge and discuss nutrition and fitness with one of Virtual Care’s qualified dieticians or exercise physiologists.
Child Care Super is thrilled to be sponsoring Early Educator’s Day 2023 – thank you for allowing us to help spread awareness and recognition for the early learning sector and to be a part of this special event.
To learn more about Child Care Super or become a member please visit our website.
As an employer, you can implement strategies for a healthy workplace which promote the mental and physical wellbeing of your staff and also provide support to anyone who may be experiencing mental health issues.
A very important part of your strategy to foster a mentally healthy workplace includes offering your team members access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which aims to enhance mental health and wellbeing, maximise productivity and improve organisational culture.
By improving your team members’ lives and wellbeing, they will be happier, healthier, and ultimately more engaged and productive at work.
The impact of mental health issues on the workplace
While lifestyle factors including work, diet, drugs and lack of sleep can all affect one’s mental health, those struggling with a mental health problem are often experiencing additional factors.
Life experiences such as serious illness or a death in the family, family or marital problems, physical health problems, social isolation, study or work stress can all have an impact on the mental health of your team members.
If mental health issues among your team are not addressed, they can eventually lead to high absenteeism, lost productivity and high staff turnover.
You may be interested to know that ACECQA’s Ten Year Workforce Strategy includes an entire focus area on wellbeing (Focus Area 4 on page 52), which calls for research into practical mental health strategies for employees that work and the promotion of these wellbeing supports.
What exactly is an Employee Assistance program (EAP)?
An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is an external service, paid for by the employer, to ensure their employees and their families have access to professional assistance for personal or work-related issues that are impacting on their employment or work performance.
The EAP usually offers your team of staff a suite of practical services such as counselling or therapy from psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals along with practical everyday life support including general health advice and programs. A comprehensive EAP can even include legal services and financial management or debt support.
What about the privacy of my staff?
Any EAP benefits received by employees or family members remain confidential. This means that while the employer pays for the service, they have no insight into an employee’s specific use of the service.
That is, employers do not get to know who is utilizing the service, what the reasons are for, or how often employees call.
This is an important detail, as it means that employees can trust that they are engaging with a private, confidential service.
How much an EAP service normally cost for the employer?
It is the employer who pays for an EAP service, so that it can be offered at no cost to the employees.
Under most EAP packages to employers, the employer pays an annual subscription fee and sometimes additional charges depending on the service being accessed by the staff, such as the counselling service (which can be face-to-face or a telehealth service).
Generally the EAP subscription fee to the employer can range from $2,000 – $5,000 annually, with an additional average cost of approximately $90 a year per employee. The total cost to the business will vary depending on the number of staff employed. As an example, for a business that has 30 staff, the annual cost for an EAP would work out to approximately $5,000 to $8,000 a year.
ACA & TELUS HEALTH offer a low-cost EAP for all early learning service providers
Given the important nature of an EAP, the Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) wanted to ensure that the cost of an EAP would not be a barrier to any early learning service provider offering this service to their team of staff. In order to offer the early learning sector a high-quality Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at a fraction of the usual cost, ACA has proudly partnered with TELUS Health – the world’s largest EAP provider.
ACA’s partnership with TELUS Health means that we can offer an ongoing high-quality EAP package to the early learning sector at a fraction of the usual annual cost. You don’t have to be an ACA member to take advantage of this EAP offer.
When you sign up to the ACA/TELUS Health offer, your team of staff will have 24/7 support by phone, online by browser and by mobile app, with 24/7 access to telephone counselling as well as professional advisors for advice, work-life support, and referrals. You can read more about the costs and the extent of the services here.
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Watch the introductory video
ACA President Paul Mondo and TELUS Health Director of Business Development Kylie Hancock provide an overview of:
- the benefits of offering your team of staff an Employee Assistance Program (EAP);
- how much an EAP normally costs the employer per staff member compared to the very affordable ACA/TELUS Health EAP cost; and
- how the EAP works.
We’d like to share a few words from our 2023 Sponsor Tanda to explain what they’re all about and how they can assist your early learning service(s).
As an early learning service provider, getting your workforce administration right is a top priority.
You want to make sure your rostering system works well and that your team of staff members are paid correctly and on time, every time.
Tanda offers a software solution that streamlines your administrative processes and lets you and your team members focus on the most important part of their role – the children.
How can Tanda help streamline workforce administration?
Tanda is a complete workforce management solution with features for rostering, time & attendance and award interpretation.
Tanda’s software platform consolidates all relevant information in one place, making scheduling employees easy and effortless. You can keep track of your team members’ time off, monitor the expiration dates of their qualifications, and stay on top of overtime pro-actively.
The platform integrates seamlessly with all major Australian payroll systems and industry-specific tools such as ChildHR and CCMS software. to streamline processes and make them easy.
Employee time and attendance is recorded to the minute by digital time clocks. From here, Tanda’s industry-leading Award Interpreter calculates how much staff need to be paid, and exports it directly to a payroll system of your choice.
HOW ABOUT Award interpretation?
Tanda’s market-leading Award Interpreter automatically calculates employee pay, penalty rates, overtime, and other entitlements so you can pay staff correctly and on time every time.
Base rates, overtime, allowances, higher duties – Tanda has you covered.
Their dedicated team has combed through the details of the Children’s Services Award to make sure you’re complying with every requirement.
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Little locals early learning shares their story
See how Little Locals Early Learning worked with Tanda to reduce the time spent on administrative duties and allow their educators to keep creating amazing experiences for their kids.
For more information about how Tanda can help your service streamline processes, visit the Tanda website.
APPAREL ORDERS NOW PRODUCED & ON THEIR WAY TO YOUR SERVICE!
To those of you who placed an order for this year’s apparel from our friends and experts in Early Childhood Education uniforms at Cargo Crew, your items have now been produced, packaged and dispatched for delivery (they were sent on 21 August), so that you can receive your delivery of gorgeous items well before Wednesday 6 September.
By now you should have received an automatic email with your invoice and tracking details. However if you haven’t yet received this email, please check your junk folder. If not there, please email hello@cargocrew.com.au with your order number (as listed on the invoice) so they they can provide you with the tracking number and tracking instructions.
You can contact StarTrack directly if they have any issues with delivery.
We hope you and your team enjoy the beautiful designs of this year’s apparel and that it helps you all celebrate Early Childhood Educators’ Day. We also hope that the “Planting the seeds for a better future” theme strikes a meaningful chord with early learning service providers, the families who attend early learning services and most importantly with our valued early childhood educators.
In the months and weeks leading up to Early Childhood Educators’ Day, we welcome and encourage the support of Australia’s early learning services, sector stakeholders and the media to help spread the message to families and the general community that the event is coming up.
Your organisation can play a role in helping to spread the word by sharing some or all of the communications tools below. By doing so, you are supporting the recognition and celebration of the work of Australia’s early childhood educators.
We ask that all of our stakeholders respect the nature of the day which is all about community engagement and not about commercial or political gain.
NOTE: Please be aware that the materials below are shared under a Creative Commons Licence, which means you have legal permission to use and share these materials for the purposes of celebrating the event with the community. (There is no need to cite the Australian Childcare Alliance as the creator.) You do not have permission to use the name of the event, the logo or any of the communications materials provided below for the advertising of the sale of goods or services.
The Australian Childcare Alliance thanks you in advance for your support of this well-loved, national community event.
If you don’t know much about Early Childhood Educators’ Day, you can read about the purpose of the event here and the history of the event here.
APPAREL ORDERS NOW CLOSED & PRODUCTION HAS BEGUN
To those of you who placed an order for this year’s apparel from our friends and experts in Early Childhood Education uniforms at Cargo Crew, you can rest assured that your items are now in production.
Once made and packaged, your order wil be dispatched on 21 August, so that you can receive your delivery of gorgeous items well before Wednesday 6 September.
When your order has been dispatched, you should receive an automatic email with your invoice and tracking details. However if you don’t receive this email after 21 August, please check your junk folder. If not there, please email hello@cargocrew.com.au with your order number (as listed on the invoice) so they they can provide you with the tracking number and tracking instructions.
You can contact StarTrack directly if they have any issues with delivery.
We hope you and your team enjoy the beautiful designs of this year’s apparel and that it helps you all celebrate Early Childhood Educators’ Day. We also hope that the “Planting the seeds for a better future” theme strikes a meaningful chord with early learning service providers, the families who attend early learning services and most importantly with our valued early childhood educators.
Attention: Early learning service providers
To help you and your team celebrate Early Childhood Educators’ Day 2023, our friends & experts in Early Education Uniforms, Cargo Crew, have produced a new range of gorgeous apparel & merchandise. Not only are they an Australian family business, they design uniforms built to last and designed for comfort in our very busy roles.
Every year we like to select a theme for the apparel which reflects what’s going on in the early learning sector from an operational and cultural perspective.
This year in recognition of the important role that our early childhood educators play in the life of the children in their education and care, the theme for Early Childhood Educators’ Day is “Planting the seeds for a better future”.
Cargo Crew have brought this design to life and we hope this theme strikes a meaningful chord with early learning service providers, the families who attend early learning services and most importantly with our valued early childhood educators.
This year you can choose from a selection of T-shirts, aprons, tote bags, sun hats and key rings to help your team celebrate Early Childhood Educators’ Day in style!
You and your team members can print out the handy catalogue and take a look at this year’s apparel by downloading the 2023 catalogue using the button below.
You can also view and place your orders via the Cargo Crew webpage – www.cargocrew.com.au/eced
Important timelines:
- Orders close at 5pm on August 1
- Orders will be dispatched August 21 for delivery in time before September 6.
We are thrilled to launch our brand-new website for Early Childhood Educators’ Day 2023.
The website has been developed by the Australian Childcare Alliance for the benefit of the entire early learning sector.
As you can see, the new website offers a new and improved, vibrant online platform designed to inspire, excite and foster creativity, to make sure everyone in our early learning community has the resources needed to plan, prepare and ultimately celebrate an amazing Early Childhood Educators’ Day.
The new platform also allows for greater opportunities for our early learning community to show their support and participation in the event.
We encourage early learning service providers and families to visit the How To Get Involved webpage and explore the suite of printable materials on the Resources webpage to get inspired.
We also invite early learning services to show their participation by adding their service to the map of participating services on the homepage and sharing their photos of celebrations to the online photo gallery.
We will continue to update our website regularly with fresh content to keep the early learning community up to date with the latest news and special give-aways.
We would like to send out a heart-felt thank our 2023 event sponsors – Cargo Crew, Child Care Super, Tanda and TELUS Health (formerly LifeWorks) – for their generosity and support, which has enabled the development of this new platform, the community videos and the other online resources.
We hope you enjoy perusing the new website and find it useful in getting inspired for this year’s celebrations!
Together, we can showcase the nation’s gratitude and appreciation for early childhood educators, making Early Childhood Educators’ Day 2023 a truly memorable and impactful occasion.
Our Special 2023 Sponsors
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