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NSW Department of Education

Early Childhood Education

Virtual Roadshow

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Acknowledgement of Country

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Minister’s address

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Executive Director’s Welcome

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Agenda

Tim Time Age genda ite tem 20 minutes Welcome, Acknowledgment of Country, Minister’s address 10 minutes Executive Director introduction 35 minutes COVID-19 15 minutes OCG update for Child Safe Standards 10 minutes Break 1 hour 55 minutes Working together to lift quality (including a 20 minute break) 25 minutes Aboriginal Early Childhood Education Children’s Strategy 20 minutes Sector development and support update 5 minutes Close

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COVID-19 Reflections

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• The sector has been incredibly adaptable, resilient and responsive

− Keeping children engaged in education and care has been a strong focus and supporting families to keep working

• The Department has offered a range of support including:

− Fee-free preschool and funding for Local Government services − Waivers − Phoning all services and providing logistical and other support

• The Department continues to update FAQs to provide advice and guidance to the sector.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/early-childhood-education/coronavirus/advice-for-services-and-providers

• For information on any matter contact our Info and Enquiries line call 1800 619 113 or

email ececd@det.nsw.edu.au

Acknowledging the sector’s effort

COVID-19 Reflections

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• The research aims to capture sector learnings and innovations.
• The lessons will be collected and shared.
• The research includes:

−A sector-wide survey currently open to all services and focus groups. −Consultations with families

• The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JZ6ZB36

and closes on 9 October

Capturing all learnings

COVID-19 Learnings Research including Sector Survey

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How have services responded to COVID-19 challenges?

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Mentimeter Questions

Please scan the QR code on the slide to provide your input on how COVID-19 has impacted your service.

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Panel Discussion

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Questions to Panel

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Update for Early Childhood Education

Office of the Children’s Guardian

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If you have any other questions on the OCG’s update aft fter this is session, ple lease send to ecedengagement@det.n .nsw.edu.a .au

Update for Early Childhood Education

Office of the Children’s Guardian

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Break

10 minutes

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Working together to lift quality

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Working Together to Lift Quality

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Quality Support Team

Self lf-Assessment

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Quality Support Team

Sec Sector Su Support Acti ctivit ities

• Service Support
• Resource development
• Engagement with Providers, Peak Bodies
• WT Reassessment and Re-Rating

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Service Support

This is easier than the QIP This just makes sense We were able to reflect on what we do every day and know this will be highlighted in the report We're excited to start working on this Thank you! It's so good to have someone to talk to Thank you for all your support! We're good to go! Our educators felt more confident knowing what we do and how it aligns to the NQS The officer seemed to have more time to talk with our staff The feedback

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standard we submitted for review was really helpful The self- assessment helped us get

• rganised and

we felt really prepared for the visit Our team loved working on the self-assessment. They understood it more than the QIP – it was easy to work with The self- assessment helped us get

• rganised and

we felt really prepared for the visit We are moving

• ur QIP over to

the working document and it's so much better – love it!

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Reflective Practice

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Self-Assessment for Quality Improvement

• Working Document

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Common questions and answers

• If I use self assessment, do I also have to

maintain a separate QIP?

• Do I need to provide 5 key practices for

every element?

• Do we get an extra bonus points for

choosing Self Assessment?

• Does an Authorised Officer have a limit on

the number of ratings to award each month? Contact the Quality Support Team Email: ecequalitysupport@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: 1800 619 113

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Raising Families’ and Community Awareness

• Quality Ratings Initiative

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Quality Ratings Initiative

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Quality Ratings Initiative

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Quality Ratings Initiative

Your advocacy and discussions with families about the quality ratings display will help increase awareness that, over time, will lead to continuous improvement in the provision of quality early childhood education and care services.

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Please scan the QR code below using your phone’s camera to complete the order form to sign up as an early adopter of the Quality Ratings initiative.

Early Adopter Phase

Quality Ratings Initiative

INFORMATION AND ENQUIRIES TEAM You can contact this team by calling 1800 619 113 or email ececd@det.nsw.edu.au.

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Quality improvement opportunities for services with a Working Towards Rating

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NSW sector support initiatives and programs

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Quality Support Team, Self-assessment and Re-assessment Initiative

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Presentation from a service

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Mentimeter Question

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10 minutes

Group discussion session

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Mentimeter question

Please submit your group’s key discussions and one question by scanning the QR code below on your phone’s camera. Please choose one representative from your group to submit your question.

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Break

10 minutes while we collate your questions

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Responding to your questions

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Aboriginal Early Childhood Education Children’s Strategy

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Early Childhood Education Strategy for Aboriginal children

The Department seeks to improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal children by co-designing an early childhood education Strategy for Aboriginal children, in the following three stag

• 1. Aboriginal

Ro Roundtable Eve Events

• Understand key barriers and enables for

Aboriginal Children to engage in ECE

• Prioritization of key strategy focus areas
• 2. Aboriginal

EC ECE Advisory Gro Group

• Drafting of key strategy targets
• Ideation of strategy initiatives
• 3. Stra

rategy Deve velopment

• Co-drafting of strategy with Aboriginal ECE

Advisory Group

• Final approval and sign off from Minister

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The strategy will look to address the gaps shown in the data, and align to the updated Closing the Gap targets, in particular:

• By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

ass assessed as as de developmentall lly on

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track in all five domains of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) to 55 55 pe per cen cent.

• By 2025, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

en enrolle led in in Yea Year Bef efore Fu Fullti lltime Sc Schooli ling (YBFS) early childhood education to 95 5 pe per ce cent.

• By 2031, there is a su

sust stained inc increase in number and strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander la languages be being sp spoken.

Alignment to Closing the Gap targets

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What the data shows: Enrolment Rates

Only 75.7% of eligible Aboriginal children are enrolled in YBFS

4,271 4,752 5,016 59.9% 68.0% 75.7% 0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 3,800 4,000 4,200 4,400 4,600 4,800 5,000 5,200 2016 2017 2018

Proportion of Aboriginal Children enrolled in ECE in YBFS

#Number % Proportion

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Understanding the Data: ROGS vs UANP

Aboriginal children enrolled Aboriginal children enrolled for 600 hours

NSW Department of Education Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children enrolled in a preschool program aged in the state-specific YBFS Number of children enrolled in a preschool program aged in the YBFS 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Current Aboriginal Children enrolled NSW 5 016 ERP Aboriginal Children NSW 6,628 6,766 6,917 7,090 7,335 7,585 7,835 8,084 Current Participation Rate NSW 75.7% Aust 86.1% To reach 95% participation Rate Additional Children from 2018 NSW 1,300 1,420 1,560 1,720 1,960 2,190 2,430 2,670 Additional Children year on year NSW 1,300 120 140 160 240 230 240 240

Source Data: ROGS 2020 table 3A.21, ABS - Population Projections, ECED Data and Insight

Additional 1560 enrolments needed in 2020 to bring to 95%

What the data shows: Enrolment Rates

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Indigenous Children 2.2 times more developmentally vulnerable on two or more measures; much more prominent in remote and very remote parts of Australia

Source Data: AEDC, ECED Data and Insight

What the data shows: Developmental Vulnerability

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• Increasing enrolments, participation and developmental outcomes for Aboriginal

children

• Building a culturally capable and diverse ECE workforce,
• ECE service quality and safety from a cultural perspective, and
• Embedding Aboriginal perspectives and pedagogies into ECE.

Key areas of focus for the strategy will be:

Strategy Focus Areas

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• 5. Integration of Aboriginal perspectives

in learning activities

• 6. Strengthen cultural competency of the

early childhood education workforce

• 7. Targeted transition to school programs
• 8. Targeted culturally appropriate

training to support individual needs of Aboriginal children Rank the top 5 areas that you think the Early Childhood Education sector would need more support in to help Aboriginal children learn and grow within the early years?

Consultation Questions

1. Building better relationships with the local Aboriginal community and families

• 2. Provision of transport solutions
• 3. Supporting Aboriginal children to

participate in 600hours of early childhood education

• 4. Recruitment and retention of

Aboriginal Staff

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If you would like to further discuss the Aboriginal ECE Strategy, please contact us on ECE.aboriginalengagement@det.nsw.edu.au

Aboriginal Education is Everyone's Business

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Sector development and support programs update

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Sector development and support programs video

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Survey

Sector development

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