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25 November 2016
risk
management
conference
Everything you want to know about
managing risk in Early Years Services
Play Australia is supported by the Department of
Education and Training Victoria to provide advice
and support to funded Early Years Services in
Victoria on outdoor play, and in particular on the risk
management of outdoor play areas, as per relevant
Australian Playground Standards.
Risk management is featured in our regular Early Years
Training Programs, however it is evident that there is an
urgent need for an opportunity for services to access the
latest information, given that there are new Standards
applicable to all services throughout Australia.
You are invited to attend
a One Day Conference to
be held at the Moonee
Valley Racecourse on
Friday November 25
commencing at 9.30am
and finishing at 3.30pm.
Who should attend?
Staff, parents, and owners and operators
of licensed children’s services .
Seminar fee
$180 inc GST per member
$320 inc GST per non-member
Payment by cheque, credit card or EFT.
*Please note, if a service is a Play
Australia member, all staff at that
service are eligible for member rates.
If a service is managed by a Cluster
Manager that is a Play Australia
member, all staff are eligible for
member rates.
Members of EEEC are eligible to
attend at the member rate also.
How to register
All registrations will be done
online via our website.
Visit www.playaustralia.org.au and
look for ‘Upcoming Events’, and
follow the prompts.
All members will be sent the code to
facilitate the online registration process
to enable member rates to apply.
Further information is available from
[email protected]
Lunch and morning
tea will be provided
(please advise in
registration process
of any dietary
requirements).
Car parking will
be provided at
no cost on site.
A set of materials
will be provided for
each participant for
ongoing reference.
Presenters
To register, visit www.playaustralia.org.au and look
for ‘Upcoming Events’, and follow the prompts.
Dr Sue Elliott
Elizabeth Cummins
Cecile van der Burgh
Dr Barbara Chancellor
Sue is a senior lecturer in early childhood
education at the University of New
England, NSW. She is a long-term
advocate of education for sustainability
and in particular, natural outdoor
playspaces. Sue is an acknowledged
author and researcher in the early
childhood field; and, her publications
include The Outdoor Playspace Naturally,
Sustainability and the Early Years
Learning Framework and Research
in Early Childhood Education for
Sustainability: International perspectives
and provocations. She is a Consulting
Editor for the International Journal
of Early Childhood Environmental
Education and has ongoing research
interests in early childhood education
for sustainability and ‘Bush Kinder’, a
uniquely Australian interpretation of
Scandinavian forest preschools.
Elizabeth is a qualified landscape architect
and educator. She has spent many years
working in private design practice, local
government and education. In 2011
Elizabeth branched out to take her
own creative project direction, called
Bricolage Design specialising in design
and strategic planning, particularly for
children’s environments in regional
Victoria. A passionate advocate for free
play, Elizabeth is a founding coordinator
of the Creative Cubby Project, a regional
play initiative. In 2015 Elizabeth coauthored Getting the Balance Right
– Risk Management for Play for Play
Australia. She has most recently been a
contributing editor for the international
publication How To Grow A Playspace;
Design and Development due to be
published by Routledge Publishers UK
in 2017 She speaks and blogs regularly
on play and projects for children. www.
bricolagedesign.com.au
Cecile is a human geographer based
in Melbourne and a co-founder of the
Kids In Nature Network. She has worked
in nature conservation for over fifteen
years and recently completed a PhD in
connectivity conservation. Born and
raised in The Netherlands, Cecile spent
most of her childhood playing outside.
She continues to explore the world (and
risk taking) by foot, bike, sail and through
music. She is a fellow of the Centre for
Sustainability Leadership and a recipient
of the Mary Byles Award. Nature Play
Week, Kids In Nature Network’s signature
initiative, is a finalist in the Premier’s
Sustainability Awards 2016.
Barbara is the Managing Director of
Outdoor Playspace Consultancy. With
more than 35 years teaching experience
in early childhood, primary and higher
education sectors, Barbara now draws on
her academic research and industry links
to provide practical support to those
responsible for provision of outdoor
playspaces for children. Barbara has an
extensive body of scholarly research
in the fields of children’s play, outdoor
playspace design and management in
school playgrounds, early childhood
settings and public open spaces. She has
several ongoing research collaborations
with scholars in Australia and many
other parts of the world, publishing in
peer reviewed academic journals and
books and regularly presenting her
research in international forums. Barbara
is a long standing Board member of
Play Australia and member of the
International Play Association.
Mary Jeavons
Mary has over 25 years’ experience
in planning, design and advocacy
for outdoor play, and for access and
inclusion, applied to settings such
as early childhood centres, schools,
public play spaces, and therapeutic
environments. Mary has represented
Play Australia for many years on
the Standards Australia Committee
responsible for writing and reviewing
the Australian Safety Standards
for playground equipment and
surfacing. She is very interested in
the topic of risk/benefit management
and its application to outdoor play
environments for young children.
Joey Boothby
Joey is a Senior Recreation Planner at
Manningham City Council in Melbourne.
She has worked in Local Government for
over 15 years and has a keen interest in
encouraging the community to spend
more time outdoors, in nature and being
more physically active. Joey has cowritten a number of key Council strategies
including the Active for Life Recreation
Strategy, Manningham Open Space
Strategy and Playspace Strategy. Joey has
a particular passion for bush kinder and
nature play and was instrumental in the
establishment of the first bush kinder in
Victoria (Westgarth Bush Kinder). Joey
believes strongly in the concept of in ‘risk
benefit’ and contributed to ‘Play Australia
Getting the Balance Right - our new Guide
for Risk Management’.
Bronwyn Joslyn
Bron is a committee member of and the
Resource and Professional Development
co-ordinator for Environmental Education
in Early Childhood ‘EEEC’. Bron is also the
Early Years Facilitator for Play Australia
critically reflecting with professionals on
the value of outdoor play for children and
connecting with nature. Bron’s roles have
included director of education and care
settings, training manager of a registered
training organisation while also writing
and facilitating accredited and nonaccredited training from Certificate III to
Advanced Diploma of Children’s Services.
In addition to the above roles, she is also
a consultant and director of learning
happens and director and teacher at
Diamond Creek Memorial Kindergarten.
25 November 2016
risk
management
conference