Respectful Relationships training
Respectful Relationships is an initiative to support schools and early childhood education settings to promote respect and equality. It supports educators to teach our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence.
Free professional learning will be available for educators in Victorian Government-funded kindergarten programs, state-wide, in May 2025. A financial contribution toward backfill is available for those attending.
About the training
The training will focus on how to build and develop respectful relationships in alignment with the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework and the National Quality Standard.
It is designed to strengthen the capacity of early childhood educators to:
- promote respectful relationships, positive attitudes and behaviours within their teaching approach, to enable children to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence
- understand the role of gender equality in the prevention of family violence, and learn practical strategies for promoting gender equality in their teaching practice
- recognise and respond to family violence and build support networks.
The professional learning will comprise of a two-hour self-paced online training module and a one-day online workshop.
Online workshops will be held on the following dates:
- Monday 5 May 2025
- Wednesday 7 May 2025
- Thursday 8 May 2025
- Friday 9 May 2025
- Monday 12 May 2025
- Tuesday 13 May 2025
- Thursday 15 May 2025
- Friday 16 May 2025
- Monday 19 May 2025
- Friday 23 May 2025
Access the Respectful Relationships professional learning flyer (PDF, 179KB).
Register
Registrations for workshops in May 2025 are now open. To register go to the Information Sharing and MARAM Online Learning System and login or create an account.
Once you are logged in, click on ‘Education Workforces’, then find the Respectful Relationships Professional Learning course, click ‘Enter’ and on the next page click ‘Enrol me’.
Complete the Pre-registration survey at the start of the course. Then go to ‘Registering to Attend a Workshop? Start here’ and follow the instructions to register.
If you have any questions about the Respectful Relationships professional learning for early childhood educators, please email respectful.relationships@education.vic.gov.au.
Claiming Backfill and Additional Hours
The professional learning program is an item on the School Readiness Funding Menu. Services can use the menu to arrange for backfill or additional support or apply to the department directly for backfill reimbursement.
To claim backfill directly through the department:
- Submit a completed Backfill Claim Form (DOCX, 94KB) and Tax Invoice to respectful.relationships@education.vic.gov.au
- Please note that (a) you are eligible to claim backfill after you have attended the full-day workshop and (b) you have 6 weeks to submit your claim.
- Click here for a Sample tax invoice.
To claim through School Readiness Funding (SRF) Menu:
Select the Respectful Relationships Menu Item on your SRF plan and include backfill or additional hours for that item.
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