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

Senior Facilitator Briana Thorne

Bri is an experienced early childhood educator, leader, and professional learning facilitator with a Masters in Early Years Education and a career spanning classroom teaching, educational leadership, centre management, and regulatory work with the Victorian Regulatory Authority. Her philosophy places the child at the heart of every decision, and she brings warmth, deep expertise, and a genuine passion for high-quality early childhood education to everything she does. As a facilitator, Bri is known for making complex ideas feel accessible, practical, and genuinely energising.