Safety tip
Are you and your family water safety wise? Supervise and save lives! Drowning is quick and silent, so active supervision is vital.

•Always stay within arm's reach of young children.
•At parties or bbq's, have a designated adult supervisor at all times.
•Swimming with your child or taking them to lessons will help build their confidence and develop good water wise skills.
•Always keep watch in and around the water.
A free Water Safety Awareness Program is available to all Territory families with children aged six months to five years. Please contact the Water Safety Branch for further information.

Children’s Services Project Officers – Remuneration, Lecturer Level A, Rural and Remote Aboriginal Children’s Services Support Unit (RRACSSU) at the Indigenous Early Childhood Unit (Research & Projects). Several positions are available:
Alice Springs: 2 Full Time positions
Darwin: 1 Full Time position
Katherine: 1 Full Time position
Fixed term appointment from ASAP to December 31st 2010.

The position is responsible for the provision of support, advice and training to Aboriginal Children’s Services in urban, rural and remote Northern Territory Indigenous community settings, via on-site face to face delivery, email, phone and fax. Applications close Friday 22nd January 2009.

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Joint Media Release with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and The Hon Kate Ellis MP

The Council of Australian Governments meeting has agreed on new compulsory national standards for child care and early childhood education services.

This reform will deliver a higher standard of care for children, and clearer and more comprehensive information for parents.

This new National Quality Framework will be phased in from 1 July 2010 and will ensure national consistency in early childhood education and child care services including outside school hours care.

The new framework will include requirements for:

A reminder to all that the National SNAICC Conference will be held in Alice Springs on the 27th – 29th July 2010. Start thinking about allocating funds in your budgets to attend the Conference for the new financial year. Abstract presentations for the conference are now closed and Conference Registrations should be available in Jan / Feb 2010.

National Aboriginal Islander Childrens Day (NAICD) is held on the 4th August every year. The National Aboriginal Islander Children’s Day theme for 2010 is ‘Value My Culture, Value Me’. NAICD activity kits will be available for sale at the conference. If you are a SNAICC member, you will receive a kit in the post.