On 1 May 2011, the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood became the Equity and Childhood Program, in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education's Youth Research Centre (YRC).

This move formalised already strong links between our team and the YRC, and we are looking forward to even greater collaboration. This move had implications for current IJEIEC Subscribers which are outlined below.

From 1 May 2011 we have ceased accepting new subscriptions. We are currently reviewing the International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood (IJEIEC).

A 2011 volume has been published and a 2012 volume is already underway. The Equity and Childhood Program team will be in touch as articles are made available online.

If you have any queries, please contact: Kate Alexander (8344 7780 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Dr Kylie Smith (8344 4084 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Access current and past issues of IJEIEC here

We hope you can join us for the 2012 Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity conference from Friday 16 November to Saturday 17 November 2012 at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

2012 Conference Themes:

Tactics and strategies for change
Challenging power and knowledge
Querying communities
Valuing/validating diversity in practices and policies
Shifting and searching for theoretical possibilities and perspectivies
Sharing stories of bridging divides for equity

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Pat Dudgeon
Associate Professor Linda Mitchell
Ms Zorica Trikic
Professor Valerie Walkerdine

Visit: http://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/2118-honoring-the-child-honoring-equity-12-troubling-truths-bridging

Tascare Society for Children is a small community based service located in Hobart, Tasmania.  We provide support to young Tasmanian's living with disability and their families. 

Tascare operate without any source of Government funding, and rely on donations, bequests and project specific grants to enable our work.

Tascare work with families at the grass roots level – listening to their stories and locating or developing supports that are helpful.  Due to the size and ethos of Tascare, collaboration with other agencies is not only necessary, but highly valued.  Tascare has been able to work in partnership with a diverse range of partners to develop programs which add value to the lives of children and young people and their families.

Tascare's independence from Government allows us to work "in the gaps", and respond to issues and concerns for families that are not currently being addressed.

Tascare offers social and emotional support, support specifically for siblings, referral and information, individual and systemic advocacy, development of resources, lobbying change, dissemination of information and practical support for families.  We also partner with other agencies to provide camps for siblings, produce resource materials for families, and to provide a modified bicycle service for children. 

Tascare has a diverse range of interests, but in anything we undertake our focus in firmly on working in partnership with families, valuing their unique strengths and vision for their child living with disability.

Visit: http://www.tascare.asn.au/

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.