Early Childhood Skill Training Network
The roundtable explored the need and possible roles for a national group initially named the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Early Childhood Skill Training Network.
Consensus of the group centred on the need to hear the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities when investing in the early years, and that universal access to early childhood education must mean access for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to an appropriately skilled and culturally competent workforce.
The Network plans to simultaneously address workforce and training issues through strategies that increase the skill levels of existing and potential workers, while supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to feel culturally safe.
Network member organisations:
- Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
- Indigenous Education Leadership Institute
- Australian Education Union
- Independent Education Union
- Charles Sturt University Centre for Indigenous Studies
- Macquarie University Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies
- Macquarie University Institute of Early Childhood
- Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
- Aboriginal and Torres Islander Early Childhood Sector Advisory Group, NSW
- Mudgin-gal Aboriginal Women’s Centre, NSW
- Sydney Day Nursery, NSW
- Perinatal Infant Aboriginal Mental Health Program, NSW
- Lady Gowrie Indigenous Professional Support Unit, NSW & ACT
- Community Childcare Association Aboriginal Unit, VIC & TAS
- Gold Coast Inclusion Support Unit, QLD
- Indigenous Professional Support Unit, QLD
- Goonellabah and Box Ridge Transition Programs, NSW
- Victorian Aboriginal Education Association
- Victorian Aboriginal Childcare Association
- Yappera Aboriginal Children’s Services, VIC
- Yorganop Child Care Aboriginal Corporation, WA
- Network Resource Advisory Group, SA
- TAFE NSW
