Benefits of membership with ELAA

Membership

  • advocacy and news for the sector
  • member advisory service
  • professional learning and development
  • management resources and training
  • specialised consultancy services

Job Board

  • register a job
  • find an early learning job
  • get job alerts
  • get weekly updates
  • Making a difference since 1997
  • Improving access to kindergarten
  • Helping children succeed in life
  • Hundreds of families assisted
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Child Road Safety

ELAA is committed to preparing preschool children to become safe and independent road and transport users. We deliver Road Safety Education (RSE) throughout Victoria including the Starting Out Safely Program on behalf of VicRoads. Program objectives include: advocating for the value of RSE; early childhood RSE professional development; child restraint and booster seat education; and delivering RSE education within early learning services through our ThingleToodle sessions.

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Latest News
05 Jun New ‘Give Now’ page makes donating to the Early Childhood Education Foundation super easy!
04 Jun Congratulations Patrick – our first ever conference poster competition winner!
03 Jun From the CEO 4 June 2019
03 Jun Congratulations to Albert Park Kindergarten on achieving an ACECQA ‘Excellent’ rating
03 Jun Help fight ‘Nappy Stress’

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Upcoming Events

Aug

15

 OHS – Safety not just child’s play

Sep

11

 Wellbeing in early childhood settings matters!

Nov

08

 Renewing the educational program and practice (QA1) from a team perspective

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Early Talk
02 Oct Hurry – last places for Victorian Early Years Policy Debate on 11 October
29 Aug Vic Early Years Policy Debate postponed – new date to be advised
14 Sep The Role of Technology in Childcare and Early Learning
24 Jan Wearing Hats and Herding Cats: Chapter 5
28 Nov Two Years are Better than One

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Professional Learning and Development services

ELAA’s Professional Learning and Development program features leading Australian early childhood education and care experts. It’s tailored for all early childhood education and care professionals with each seminar mapped to the National Quality Standard (NQS and Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST). We also run training for kindergarten committees of management.

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