Links and Resources

This is the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development website. It has a wealth of information about early childhood, starting school, learning, how to get involved in your child's school, information about health and wellbeing and also information about secondary school. It is a great point of reference for general information about Victorian schools.

Parents Victoria is the organisation representing parents of students in Victorian government schools. They provide advice about parents clubs, have publications about current issues, run seminars and advocate for parents of school children at a federal and state level. While there is additional information available to members, there is a wealth of free information on this site as well as links to other parenting sites and articles. 

Parentline provides a state wide telephone counselling service to parents and carers of children aged from birth to eighteen years. Visit the website for more information or call them on 132289 from 8am - midnight 7 days a week.

This is a parenting website from Michael Grose, parenting commentator and author. He gives practical, down-to-earth parenting advice and shares great ideas for raising healthy, resilient kids. 

This website provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, how you can prevent and respond to bullying. The children's section of the website is at www.stopbullying.gov/kids