Child Rights
Stirling Community Early Learning Centre is committed to the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention came into force in 1990, and states that all children have the same rights, and that all rights are interconnected and of equal importance. Parents are expressly recognised as part of the Convention as having the most important role in raising and educating their children in an age-appropriate manner, and Stirling Community Early learning Centre works to support this.
Children’s wellbeing and their place in society is considered holistically at Stirling Community Early Learning Centre, and our services are designed to support them as rights-holders. We understand our role in safeguarding their rights in all areas, including access to quality education and having a voice about what affects them. Some children have additional or special rights, and we recognise that these young people require thinking and planning that is unique to them in order to thrive in our early education and care programs.
Reconciliation
Stirling Community Early Learning Centre is on Kaurna land. Our organisation welcomes all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, recognising that they are the traditional owners and custodians of the land and waterways throughout our country.
We are committed to the process of reconciliation and our vision for a just, inclusive, equitable and culturally respectful society with strong relationships between our broader community and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Early Childhood Education is a solid pathway to a reconciled nation. At Stirling Community Early Learning Centre, as part of our specialist early childhood programs, we strive for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to fully participate in quality education. Our goal is to focus on learning outcomes for children and work together with their parents. We encourage non-Indigenous educators, children and their families to value and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and people as being essential to our national identity.
Stirling Community Early Learning Centre supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart. First Nations peoples held dialogues and came together In May 2017, leading to the historic formation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. This Statement calls for three things: the Constitutional enshrinement of a First Nations Voice; negotiation of Treaties with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and Truth -telling processes, overseen by an independent Makarrata Commission.
The Uluru Statement can be read here:
Stirling Community Early Learning Centre acknowledges the 60,000 years of history Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have on this land and accepts the invitation in the Uluru Statement to “walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future”.