Practical advice and insight is offered on important issues including practitioner roles in supporting families undergoing upheaval, children suffering trauma and loss through the death of a family member, cultural dislocation and bullying.

Fun, play-based education ... young children and bullying ... child care and family break-up ... mentoring for professional growth ... supporting children through difficult times.

Topics include:

• building a quality early childhood sector
• taking big steps in child care
• developing a behaviour management policy
• safe and sustainable indoor cleaning
• blurring the line between early childhood and school
• children's concepts of language
• early childhood institutions as sites of cultural negotiations
• the National Accelerated Literacy Program
• helping alleviate stress in children.

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