Links
Poison Information Centre 13 11 26
Emergency Calls National Access 13 11 26
Police and Emergency Services 000
Government Departments for Family Issues and Children’s Services
- Oversees early childhood care and services for South Australian families
- Provides services that benefit children and families
- Lead and manage South Australia’s education system
Department of Social Services – My Child – Federal Government
- Information for child care providers and licensees, families and community and staff.
- Information about Child Care Benefits, and quality Child Care
Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
- For information on the National Quality Standard
- Helps to support families and children through programs and services and benefits and payments
Department for Communities and Social Inclusion
- Helps people who, through circumstance, may be struggling financially, at risk of harm, or isolated.
- Family Assistance Office: Child Care Benefit payments/rates
- Centrelink and Medicare
- Through its specialist judges and staff, assists Australians to resolve their most complex legal family disputes.
- The Family Court website includes information and resource sheets in plain English relating to family law.
- Information about privacy policy
Consumer and Business Services
- The Office of Consumer and Business Affairs (OCBA) provides accessible services and information to business and consumers.
Parenting and Children’s Health
- Government supported information about many issues for parenting and children’s health and wellbeing.
- Information for parents and other carers of young children on general health and other child care issues.
- Promotes the status of Parenting, and the importance of effective parenting practices. Information about Parent Helpline, and Parenting Groups.
- Information on the importance of healthy eating and physical activity for children.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- Information, news and publications relating to health and medical research.
- The NHMRC publishes the manual “Staying Healthy in Child Care”.
Kids Health Info Fact Sheets
- (Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne) contains more than 400 Australian and 370 International website links.
- These links give up to date information for professionals and parents interested in the early childhood years.
- Downloadable copies of Childcare and Children’s Health Bulletins and Parent Fact Sheets on multiple topics – all available in 6 different languages.
Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia
- Dedicated to preventing unintentional childhood injuries and reducing the resulting deaths and disabilities associated with childhood accidents in children under the age of 15 years.
Product Safety
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Keeping baby safe – a guide to nursery furniture.
Non-English speaking resources
Translations for Health Issues
Health Translations Directory
- Search information on subjects, then choose your language.
National Translating and Interpreting Service
Resources additional to the above
- Works with Government, early childhood professionals, parents, other carers of young children, and various lobby groups to secure the best range of options and outcomes for children as they grow and develop. L
- Links to many other organisations, search on topics.
- Provider of children’s services training, development, resource and advisory programs; includes a specialist bookstore for children’s services.
- This page has NHMRC publications to download including a full copy of “Staying Health in Child Care: Preventing Infectious Diseases in Child Care”.
