EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE RESOURCES
eSafeKids supports Early Childhood Education and Care services to embed Protective Behaviours & Body Safety education into everyday practice. Through training and resources, we help you create a shared approach to child safety that empowers educators, children and families.
Our carefully curated books and resources are engaging, age-appropriate and designed to support children’s learning and understanding from the early years. They empower educators and parents/carers to confidently start meaningful conversations about Protective Behaviours, Body Safety and other essential child safety topics, helping children build the knowledge and skills they need to stay safe.
Recommended Books & Resources
eSafeKids books and resources have been mapped to the Goodstart Early Learning Feel Safe, Be Safe Protective Strategies Learning Areas.
Reading with children provides an opportunity to teach vital life skills in a child friendly, fun, age and stage appropriate way. Reading books that are meaningful can have a lasting impact. Selecting books with teachable moments and content can assist you to discuss a wide range of topics, particularly those that are sometimes tricky and sensitive.
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FEEL SAFE, BE SAFE RESOURCES
Are you looking for resources to complement the Goodstart Early Learning Feel Safe, Be Safe Protective Strategies Kit?
Reading is a wonderful way to start conversations. Books that use simple explanations, questions, prompts and reminders accompanied by beautiful illustrations create opportunities for conversations to emerge beyond the words on the page. With over 60 books available, you’re sure to find the perfect resource to support you!
Our carefully curated books and resources are aligned with Goodstart Early Learning’s key learning areas.
eSafeKids Founder Kayelene Kerr recently contributed her expertise on multiple expert panels, including the Daniel Morcombe Foundation’s Safeguarding Early Learning panel and Child Australia’s Safer Together: Practical Strategies for Strengthening Child Safety discussion. Building on this work, eSafeKids is currently collaborating with Child Australia on the Empowering Early Childhood Education and Care in Regional WA Project, delivering Protective Behaviours and Body Safety professional learning to early childhood education and care services across regional Western Australia.
Teaching children Protective Behaviours and Body Safety in age and developmentally appropriate ways doesn't take away a child's innocence, it helps to protect it.
To prevent abuse, reduce violence and promote safety and wellbeing, protective behaviours education focuses on developing life skills of empowerment, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, problem solving, help seeking, persistence and assertiveness.
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victims, survivors and their families. Society failed to protect, believe and respond justly to children, young people and adult victim survivors.