National Families Week Useful Links
(These links are to external websites)
Raising Children Network
This is a website for Australian mothers, fathers, grandparents and anyone else who has responsibility for the care of children. On the Raising Children website, parents will find reliable, scientifically validated information and resources to support them in the day-to-day work of raising children, and looking after their own needs. The website is growing all the time, and covers a broad range of up-to-date parenting topics.
Communities and Families Clearinghouse Australia (CAFCA)
CAFCA provides assistance with accessing evidence regarding the planning and delivery of services to children and families in disadvantaged Australian communities.
Early Childhood Australia
Early Childhood Australia advocates to ensure quality, social justice and equity in all issues relating to the education and care of children from birth to eight years.
Playgroup Australia
Playgroup Australia is the national body recognised as the leading representative and advocate for playgroups.
Education Network Australia (edna)
edna is a network of the education and training community. It includes government and non-government schooling systems, early childhood, vocational and technical education, adult and community education and higher education.
Kids Helpline
Kids Helpline is a counselling service for Australian children and young people aged between 5 and 25 years.
Essential Baby
Essential Baby is the largest online parenting community in Australia (and one of the largest women's communities) providing information and resources for conception, pregnancy, birth, baby, parenting and women's lifestyle. The Essential Baby community provide each other with friendship, support and advice as they travel through the journey from conception to baby and beyond.
Thanks Dad National Photo Competition
Dads are wonderful and can make a huge difference in a young child’s life. At Thanks Dad Photo Competition they like to celebrate the wonderful things men do with their children – and hope to encourage more men to spend more positive time with their children.
MySchool
My School enables you to search the profiles of almost 10,000 Australian schools. You can quickly locate statistical and contextual information about schools in your community and compare them with statistically similar schools across the country.
The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations - Early Childhood
The Early Childhood section of this website aims to help families to participate in the social and economic life of the community through the provision of support for child care services.
Early Childhood SunSmart Resources
An essential reference for any childcare service wishing to be SunSmart.