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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
October 7, 2015
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Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has moved from social services to education. This is a huge step in recognizing the important role that child care plays in a child's early learning development. Tomorrow is World Sight Day. We highlight the importance of getting your preschooler's eyes examined to avoid future difficulties with reading and learning.
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| Child care moves to education
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| Early learning is being taken seriously
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Malcolm Turnbull's new government has been quick to reorganise, with early childhood education and care (ECEC) being moved from social services to education.
This is a huge step in recognising the important role that child care plays in a child's early learning development.
Child care really sits across several portfolios and it's difficult to pigeonhole, particularly with the more recent emphasis of early childhood education vs the traditional concept of child care simply being about minding children while their parents are at work.
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Get your preschooler's eyes tested
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World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.
Good vision is incredibly important to young children, because so much of what they learn is taken in through their eyes.
But while we make a huge effort to make sure our children are vaccinated and have had other health checks before starting school, eye tests are often not done until a potential problem is highlighted… and depending on when this comes to light, it may be too late to correct.
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