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Government Plans for
Early Childhood Education

Barrie Elvish - CEO - C&K
Both the federal and state governments have early childhood education and care as a high priority on their respective reform agendas.

The Rudd Government has made a commitment to provide all four-year-olds with 15 hours of university qualified teacher led pre-prep programs on a play based curriculum. In addition, the Prime Minister has committed his Government to provide access for Indigenous children as top of the agenda.

In support of the federal agenda the Bligh Government has committed to the construction of 240 new kindergartens in areas of high demand throughout Queensland; they are designed to provide places for the 12,000 children who do not currently attend either a C&K service or long day care centre and will be primarily built on school sites or by expanding capacity in existing C&K kindergartens.

Although there are currently approximately 54,000 four-year-olds in Queensland, only 30 per cent of them have access to a bona fide pre prep program, the majority enrolled at C&K kindergartens. This is by far the worst participation rate of any state or territory in Australia and is the legacy of previous state governments, from both sides of politics, neglecting the children of this state.

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Child Care People
Interview
Karmen Phillips - Blackwater Community Childcare Centre in rural Queensland
Child care professionals share a commitment to improving society by creating dynamic and nurturing care environments for Australia's youngest learners.

Read this month's Child Care Person in the spotlight Karmen Phillips from Blackwater Community Childcare Centre in rural Queensland.

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If you or someone you know deserves to be featured in this section drop us a line at editor@careforkids.com.au.

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Children & Child Care
Creating Peaceful Mealtime Environments
The ideal mealtime environment in a child care service should be a relaxed and pleasurable experience for both the children and carers.

Establishing and maintaining a peaceful mealtime routine requires planning and the introduction of a few simple strategies, hopefully our tips will give you some good ideas as you work towards 'mealtime nirvana'!

Children thrive on routine and need to be fed regularly and on time. The food needs to be simple, easy to eat and tasty.

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Easing Separation Anxiety
Useful Strategies
For parents and children starting child care for the first time separation anxiety is common. For many children, child care is their first experience of extended separation from their parents and for many parents the guilt they have about leaving their child can make the first few days of child care an emotional time.

Child care providers can do a lot to decrease the anxiety felt by both children and parents through helping families prepare for the separation before it happens.

The best way to help families through the initial period of change is to provide lots of information and support about the normal transition process children go through as they become accustomed to care. This process should start as soon as possible:

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April 2009
Roxanne Elliott

Hello and welcome to the April edition of Child Care News.

In this month's issue we are delighted to offer you an editorial by Mr Barrie Elvish the Chief Executive Officer of C&K, Queensland's community based early childhood association.

Read Barrie's views on Government plans for reform and funding in the early childhood sector then go to the CareforKids.com.au Social pages to share your opinion on this important topic.

As all child care providers know, separation anxiety is a common experience for parents and children new to child care. To help you reassure parents and children during the initial transition period we have put together a list of tips and tricks you might like to try.

Also meet Karmen Phillips a child carer who works in the Blackwater Community Childcare Centre in rural Queensland. Karmen's views on the role of curriculum in the early childhood sector will be interesting to many of you.

To finish off we have an article on children, mealtimes and manners and how you can achieve peaceful mealtimes in your service.

As always feel free to contact me with any suggestions or comments you may have.

Until next time, happy reading.

Roxanne Elliott
Founder
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