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Employer attitudes to carer's leave
If you are a working parent and have to take unexpected or necessary leave to take care of a child, what is your employer's response?
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Reaching out for help when you’re a parent means looking to organisations or services with a range of expertise or the means to assist. Whether it’s government payments or a specialised support service, sometimes you just need to ask.
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Our Child Development Professionals

Sharon McKinlay
Early Learning Consultant, Goodstart Early Learning
Sharon McKinlay is a researcher, teacher, mother and grandmother. She has worked across a range of early childhood education and care settings over the last fifteen years, as a teacher, leader and mentor and the majority of her teaching has been in rural and regional communities in Queensland. Her current role...

Nicole Bentley
Nutrition Services Manager – Nutrition Australia Qld

Dr Rebecca English
Lecturer, Faculty of Education (QUT)

Ann Cahill
Teaching and Learning Lead - Teaching, Learning and Safety, Goodstart Early Learning

Marie Stuart
State Social Inclusion Coordinator QLD for Goodstart Early Learning