What is Keep Australia Beautiful Week? 

Keep Australia Beautiful Week is held late August each year to raise awareness about the simple things we as a community can all do in our daily lives to reduce our impact on the environment and encourage action.

This year we will be focusing on 
#ContainYourWaste

How to participate

Keep Australia Beautiful Week 20230 will focus on the three main ways we can reduce and recycle some of the goods we’re using more of these days:

1. How to protect you and your loved ones without the cost to our planet

2. How to keep good hygiene practices that don’t cost the Earth

3. How to reduce and recycle the single-use consumables from takeaway food and drinks

When is Keep Australia Beautiful Week?

From Monday 07 to Sunday 13 August

Activities:

• Rubbish Sort Activity - Identify what item is disposed in general waste and recycling bin
• Creating a recycling corner where children can bring in recycling items and material which can be reused
• Interntional Teaching - Sustainabity:
  • Saving energy - turning lights off when no in use (Maximise the use of natural light and ventilation throughout the day)
  • Place signs near all light switches, air conditioners and power points to act as reminders to turn off when not needed
  • Adding a compose outside in your vegetable garden
  • Planting a vegetable garden for the service to grow their own produce
• Make kites and fly them as a tool to discuss wind energy
• Make a windmill and discuss the direction of the wind throughout the day
• Learn and discuss about static energy – children rub a balloon on their hair and use the charged energy to pick up small bits of paper

What is Daffodil Day?

The Daffodil Day Appeal is Cancer Council’s most iconic and much-loved fundraising campaign. It is a day for Australians to give hope to those affected by all cancers by donating to support a cancer free future.

When is Daffodil Day?

Thursday, 31 August

Activities:

• Come dressed in yellow and donate a gold coin (https://www.daffodilday.com.au/fundraise-at-school)
• Arts and Crafts - Invite babies and toodler to create a daffofil with preschoolers
• Arts and Crafts - Invite preschoolers to create a daffofil windmill with preschoolers
• Have a raffle for familiy and asking small local business to donate to create hampers and vouchers for families to enter and win. Money raised to be donated to the Cancer Council Daffodil Day fund raiser.
• Due to COVID19 and limits to gatherings, centres can encourage their families to donate through the website direct: https://www.daffodilday.com.au/donate

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Early Learning Management is a highly recognised organisation focusing on meeting the needs of owners of childcare businesses in Australia. We provide practical solutions to the challenges associated with managing a childcare business.  Our team of professionals with over 28 years of experience in childcare management & related solutions is always ready to assist you.

Early Learning Management’s services encompass Financial Modelling, Childcare Management, Payroll, Financial Reporting, Consultancy, Advisory, Development & Digital Marketing.

Our reporting & business modelling approach makes it the ideal tool for many tasks including historical reporting, budgeting & forecasting, analysing KPIs & actuals, modelling scenarios & managing consolidations.

Our Team covers strategy & operations, helping organisations to plan, grow & structure their childcare business to deliver improved business performance, drive value & create a competitive, sustainable advantage. For Early Learning Management, good isn’t good enough. We endeavour to be the leaders in our profession, to assist clients to achieve their ambitions; to make a positive difference in the Childcare Industry & to maximise the success of our team.

Don’t rely on separate & disconnected services from smaller providers. Our team of dedicated specialists work alongside business owners, accounts teams & childcare managers to deliver the knowledge & confidence to help make the correct decisions. We strive to empower your team and work towards the same vision.

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1Place Childcare helps centres manage their operational processes and compliance obligations for licensing and best practice. Move your forms and checklists online, for improved visibility and greater productivity for your staff.

Hear from Aretha Kitson of Kidz, Ink Academy of Early Academics, who shares the different ways she uses 1Place Childcare, how exciting maintenance tickets can be – and how using 1Place has saved her centres up to $1000 per month!

What is the difference between Risk Mitigation and Risk Management? 

Risk Mitigation is eliminating or taking steps to reduce the likelihood of an incident occurring. Alternatively it is aimed at reducing either the severity or number of people effected by the incident thereby reducing the loss to your business. Either financially or to your reputation.

The reality is that if you mitigated or eliminated every risk to the children in your care, your staff and your business then you would probably need to close the doors and give up. None of us want that so the need to reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring is paramount to business survival.

Undertaking regular risk assessments and having up to date policy and procedure documentation is a big step towards this.

Risk Management is the process of planning a response to risks previously identified and assessed risks.

There are five basic steps businesses can take to assess and mitigate risk:

1. Identify the risks that might affect your business;
2. Analyse and understand the impact to your business;
3. Evaluate and rank the risks according to the potential impact, determined by likelihood and the effect on your business;
4. Treatment: businesses should review the highest ranking risks to develop a treatment plan to achieve acceptable risk levels. This can be done using risk management strategies and matrixes:
5. Review: all risks identified should be monitored and reviewed regularly both in consultation with your staff and independently for an objective opinion.

A Risk Management Policy can protect a business allowing risks to be dealt with appropriately to ensure business continuity.

Does your business have a plan in place to deal with risk in your workplace?

For further information and any assistance Contact Matthew at AFS Group on (02) 9531 7839.