More support will be available to educators and teachers to better prepare for children moving from kindergarten to school. A positive start to school, leading to greater and ongoing connection…
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Early childhood language teachers will get the opportunity to boost their language teaching skills. The two courses being offered to language teachers will be delivered remotely in 2020. The courses…
All kinder in Victoria will be free for Term 3, and children will be supported to learn from home thanks to a relief package to support early childhood services through…
Every Victorian VCE student will be individually assessed, and any adverse impacts of coronavirus will be reflected in ATAR rankings as part of a wide-ranging process to ensure fair and…
Featuring a panel of speakers from the Loddon region, along with Kate Colvin from the Council to Homeless Persons, and Trevor Brown from their Peer Education Support Program, the webinar…
Free pads and tampons are now available in every government school in Victoria – reducing the discomfort and embarrassment around periods for girls and saving families hundreds of dollars every…
We haven’t let COVID-19 stop us from marking a really important week. On Monday for the first time, Homelessness Week will be launched in a virtual Town Hall meeting hosted…
Some workplaces are beginning to make the transition back to the office and at the same time there have been changes to government restrictions in metropolitan areas, making this a…
The Australian Services Union is calling on the Federal Government to abandon its plan to increase the costs of Social Work and related degrees like Social Science, Social Welfare, Human…
Right now in Australia, there’s just one job vacancy for every 13 people looking for work. This mismatch will get worse before it gets better, as the economic crisis sparked…
National Homelessness Week will be held from 3 – 8 August 2020 Due to the pandemic there won’t be a physical launch of the week and the focus will instead…
There are a range of options for viewing SHS training you can check the LMHN events calendar, download the SHS training calendar or visit Eventbrite directly. Whatever way you check…
The COVID-19 guide for renters contains all recent legislation updates, a sample rent reduction agreement and sample letters for tenants to negotiate with landlords and many other useful tips and…
In a media release from the Victorian State Government, Premier Daniel Andrews will continue to reduce the cost of sessional kindergarten for families and provide kinders with extra cleaning for…
Parents of two-year-old and three-year-old children can sign up to Play Learn Grow, a free and new evidence-based program developed in collaboration with parenting experts. Minister for Education James Merlino…
Five high-profile Australians agree to swap their privileged lifestyles for 10 days of being homeless in NSW. They find out what it’s like to go from having everything to having absolutely nothing. Living amongst Australia’s homeless are Emergency Doctor & Businessman Dr. Andrew Rochford, Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne Arron Wood, Restauranteur & Entrepreneur Pauline Nguyen, Comedian & Radio Presenter Ciaran Lyons, and Actress & Model Ellie Gonsalves.
Given the issues arising from COVID-19 and the potential for even more people being affected by homelessness, it is more important than ever to lend your voice to the Everybody’s…
ABC TV’s new series of ‘You Can’t Ask That’ features an episode on Public Housing. The show kicks of with a question that gets straight to the heart of the common…