How to make relationships and sexuality education fun and accurate.

Explore how to help your school or early learning centre challenge racism.

Our panel came together with one thing in mind: to share our own deeply personal stories to make a difference to the way in which LGBTIQ adults and children are treated, seen and understood in early childhood education and care settings. Through our sharing of stories, we covered many matters related to children, adults, play, relationships, environments, resourcing and language. We also shared statistics related to LGBTIQ youth, not to shock, but to stress the vital impact that our work can have on stopping our youth from becoming just another statistic.

In an Australia-wide first, the Victorian government is providing $160 million in extra support to funded kindergartens over the next four years. According to the 2015 Australian Early Development Census, one in five Victorian children start school ‘developmentally vulnerable’, the impact of which can be felt across a lifetime.

Now is a great time to revisit the Safe Adults activity with children. Summer holidays are a lot of fun but they can also be a time of risk as children are often less supervised and in the company of other adults and teens.