Regulatory Authority Priority Series – And Young People: Supporting Older Children to Engage in OSHC

The Queensland Early Childhood Regulatory Authority (ECRA) is responsible for regulating the early childhood education and care sector including outside school hours care. They have a vital role in making sure children are safe and receive high-quality education and care. This series spotlights the new priority areas they announced in late 2023.

This session will focus on Adequate supervision, more specifically quality programming which keeps children engaged, particularly for older children in the outside school hours care setting.

MTOP V2.0 has seen the powerful addition of ‘young people’ to the Australian Framework for School Aged Care V2.0 – hundreds of times in fact! This is an important reflection of how older children in OSHC see themselves, distinct in identity from the younger children cohort.

Older children have long been considered challenging for many educators in…