Starting at a service can be an emotional experience for you and your child. Children may experience difficulty settling into a new environment, particularly if they find it hard to separate from family or familiar caregivers.

How can you help your child settle in?

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Challenging behaviour: biting

Learning to manage emotions and responses can be challenging for some young children. This factsheet will help you understand how you can work collaboratively with the educators at your child’s service to help your child develop these skills.

Developing children's positive behaviour in early learning

During the early childhood years children experience many transitions, whether in long day care, family day care, preschool or outside school hours care.
Transitions in centre-based education and care settings often occur between rooms, groups, educators or school. 

Supporting children during transitions

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Transition to school

The Child Care Subsidy has increased. Visit childcaresubsidy.gov.au for details.

How to support your child through early childhood education and care