Best Start, Best Life reforms
- Kindergarten Sector Guide – key information about the reforms, and the support available for children to access and participate in programs.
- Four-Year-Old Kindergarten is becoming Pre-Prep – the roll-out schedule.
- Operational policies supporting the Best Start, Best Life reforms – flexible hours and other policies.
Communicating with families
- Communicating about kindergarten to your community – communication kits, fact sheets, social media tiles and other resources to help services communicate with families and promote their kindergarten programs.
- Benefits of kinder – information about the benefits of kinder programs.
- Pre-Prep roll-out video – shows children who are eligible in 2026.
- Play-based learning and your child – information sheet about how children learn through play.
Inclusion in kindergarten programs
- Children with additional needs in early childhood – supports available for children with additional needs.
- Getting started at childcare and kindergarten – Association for Children with Disability – advice for families and carers of children with additional needs.
- Toolkit: Inclusion is Everyone's Business resource.
Planning for and implementing Pre-Prep
- Change Management Toolkit – information and tools to help services work with their team and families to plan and implement Pre-Prep and continue Three-Year-Old Kindergarten.
Pre-Prep program modelling
- ‘Your Guide To’ information sheets on multi-age groups, rotational models, team teaching and teaching longer days – advice about planning for and the benefits of program models.
- Delivering Pre-Prep to children from priority cohorts – programming considerations for 2026 priority cohort children.
Supporting CALD families and children
- Supporting CALD families to engage in kindergarten – resources for services to communicate with cultural and linguistically diverse (CALD) families about kindergarten and its benefits.
- Supporting families from refugee backgrounds –Foundation House – resources for services to engage with families from refugee backgrounds to support access to early learning.
- Engaging with multilingual families guide – how to create welcoming and inclusive environments, use different ways to communicate, and get the right language supports.
- Early Childhood Language Services – free interpreting and translation services to communicate with parents and carers who speak a language other than English or use Auslan.
- CALD Outreach Initiative – CALD Outreach Workers address barriers to kindergarten access and participation.
Supporting First Nations families and children
- Early childhood education programs supporting Aboriginal children – early childhood programs and services for Aboriginal children and their families.
- Resources to support cultural safety for Koorie children and families – resources to support a welcoming environment for Koorie families at your service.
- Best Start – local partnerships with service providers to support localised and targeted strategies to improve children’s engagement and participation in kindergarten, including 6 Aboriginal Best Start sites around Victoria.
Additional year of funded Three- or Four-Year-Old Kindergarten or Pre-Prep
- Additional year of funded kindergarten or Pre-Prep from 2026 – information about the eligibility criteria and process.
- Does my child need an additional year of kindergarten or Pre-Prep? – information for parents and carers about the guidelines.
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