About this bundle

This series of workshops will guide you through how to support children's health and safety within an education and care service.

Children’s health and safety is paramount in early childhood education and care to minimise the risk and protect children from harm, injury and infection.  Practical strategies will be discussed on how to adequately supervise children from potential threats or injury, whilst also establishing a sound understanding on the relevant authorities when reporting an incident or emergency.

Learning outcomes

In this bundle you will develop:

  • Practical strategies on how to adequately supervise children from potential threats or injury, whilst also establishing a sound understanding on the relevant authorities when reporting an incident or emergency.

  • An understanding that recognises, respects, and protects the rights of children in the development and implementation of laws, policies, practices and decisions directly affect them.

  • How to provide a secure and safe environment for children and what the role of the teacher requires.

  • A deeper understanding into how trauma can significantly impact the developing brain and what the potential effects are, as well as the practical strategies on how to adequately support children.

Meet Your Facilitator

Facilitator Briana Thorne

Briana is a passionate and experienced early years education specialist. Briana has worked across a variety of roles in early years education as an Early Childhood Teacher, Educational Leader, Centre Director, Area Manager, State Manager and General Manager. Briana’s passion for the highest quality education and care led her to work for the Victorian Regulatory Authority supporting and assessing services practices and quality through regulatory and Assessment and Rating procedures. Briana has her Masters in Early Years Education with a specialisation in Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. Briana’s philosophy places the child at the heart of every decision, connection and action across early years settings. Advocating for children’s agency, embracing children’s voices and child-led educational programming and planning has been a long-held practice. As an experienced leader and mentor, Briana enjoys teaching and supporting educators and leaders to build strong, supported teams of professionals with a shared culture of growth, care and to enable teams to flourish together. With a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Performing Arts, Briana has a dramatic streak and her skills in documentation and the written word support her in providing engaging and high quality training. In her downtime, Briana enjoys filling her giant Connection and Mastery cups by spending quality time with her family, taking on yet another project or challenging herself to learn something new time and again.