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Responding to harmful sexual behaviours: OSHC

Educators work hard to maintain the safety of the children and young people in their care. While there are many risks to mitigate, it is important to also consider the risk that children and young people may experience harmful sexual behaviours from other children and young people in your service. Your role is to reduce the risk, recognise the red flags, and respond and report.

 In this course, you will learn about harmful sexual behaviours that may occur in an outside school hours care setting. You will learn how to prevent, identify and respond to harmful sexual behaviours that may occur between the children and young people in your care. 



Learning outcomes

In this course, you will:
  • understand which sexual behaviours are developmentally appropriate in children and young people and which are considered harmful
  • explore why some children and young people engage in harmful sexual behaviours and what scenarios you may encounter in an outside school hours care setting
  • discover educator expectations in reducing the risk and protecting children and young people from harmful sexual behaviours
  • examine ways to recognise the signs and indicators of harmful sexual behaviours and understand how to respond and report.

Recommended for: This course is suitable for early childhood education and care professionals at all stages of their careers.


Category: ECA Subscriptions

RS: Being the champion for children who are impacted by trauma and adversity

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Documenting and assessing children's learning with Dr Anne Kennedy

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Now or never, a time for urgent change

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Every child has a right to be included

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Introduction to the National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Professionalism and identity in early childhood education and care: Who we are and what we do

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Reconciliation in children's education and care: Taking the first steps

Category: Remote SCORMS

RS: Settling multiple children in early childhood education and care settings

Category: Remote SCORMS

Safe environments and responding to incidents

This course is designed to explore the relevant Regulations and laws in regards to health and safety within service environments. You will unpack and explore practical examples in managing risk, responding to incidents and safeguarding children from harm and hazards. The course will provide strategies for best practice in relation to safe environments, and ways to prevent risk of harm as a whole service approach. You will also discover health and safety considerations directly relating to child-safe environments, and how to manage these risks and incidents on an ongoing basis.


Category: Governance and risk management program

Secure transitions: Supporting children to feel secure, confident and included

Category: Research in Practice Series

Settling multiple children in early childhood education and care settings

The need for sleep and rest varies as children develop and grow, and in many cases, an early childhood setting is very different to the home sleep environment. This can cause restlessness and difficulty sleeping for children of all ages.

This on-demand webinar examines practical safe sleeping strategies for settling multiple children in Early Childhood Education and Care settings. It will examine many methods of settling groups of babies or children, as well as ways to discuss and work collaboratively with parents and caregivers to support a child in sleep.

In this course, you will:

  • develop skills and strategies to help settle multiple children
  • ensure that babies and children sleep safely while meeting quality standards as set out by ACECQA
  • discuss best practice and policies as they relate to sleep and rest
  • enhance your ability to offer sleeping experiences that are appropriate to your environment.
Category: ECA Subscriptions

Sleep in early childhood

Category: Everyday Learning Series

STEM in early childhood education

Category: Research in Practice Series

STEM inquiry: Co-constructed environments for curious minds

This module invites early childhood educators and teachers to engage in inquiry-based, child-led STEM practices. It discusses common notions of STEM and unfolds what STEM in the early years looks like. The audience becomes aware of everyday learning opportunities relevant to children’s life and develops a basic understanding of co-constructed environments, the principles of inquiry-based learning and the concept of metacognition.

Through this module, participants will gain an understanding of:

  • STEM in an early years context
  • the educator’s role in STEM inquiry
  • why inquiry practices are important for children’s future
  • what inquiry-based and co-constructed learning is
  • how STEM inquiry links to Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.
Category: ECA Subscriptions

Supporting bilingualism during early childhood

Australia’s population is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse in the world, with an increasing number of children growing up in homes where more than one language is spoken. These children may also transition into early childhood education and care settings where many languages may be present. This reality presents a range of challenges and opportunities for early childhood professionals who educate and care for diverse groups of young children and their families.

This webinar explores the topic of childhood bilingualism and how early childhood educators can help bilingual children develop language and communication skills during the early years. The webinar also looks at supporting bilingual educators as well as how to share language and culture with young children and their families.

In this course, you will explore:

  • different terms and types of bilingualism during childhood
  • the various factors that influence language development in young children learning more than one language
  • the benefits of bilingualism for children and their families
  • how to identify and promote factors that support bilingualism during early childhood.
Category: ECA Subscriptions

Supporting Children with Disability or Delay

Category: Everyday Learning Series

Supporting children’s creativity in early childhood education

Category: Everyday Learning Series

Supporting children’s self-regulation: 3-5 years

In this course, we focus on how to help children learn to manage their own attention, emotions, thinking, and behaviour. Self-regulation develops rapidly in the early years, through experiences and relationships that shape brain development. What can you do to support children to develop these critical skills?

After completing this course you will:

  • discover why self-regulation is a critical skill that develops in early childhood and underpins all future learning and wellbeing
  • explore the educator’s role in supporting self-regulation development through reflective practice, strong relationships with children and families and embedding self-regulation support strategies into all aspects of planning and the curriculum
  • examine how play, the use of language, group games, and music and movement experiences can all support children’s self-regulation skills.
Category: ECA Subscriptions

Supporting children’s self-regulation: Birth to three years

This course explains how educators can help very young children understand, name and manage their emotions and begin self-regulating their behaviour. By establishing solid relationships with children, educators can help them build strong foundations for lifelong learning and communication.

Throughout this course, you will:

  • find out what self-regulation is
  • understand why it’s important to help children self-regulate their emotions and behaviour
  • explore tips for building children’s self-regulation skills
  • unpack the role of the educator in supporting self-regulation.
Category: ECA Subscriptions
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