SNAICC-National Voice for our Children

14/10/2026

Exciting news! SNAICC’25 is a finalist at the Australian Event Awards 🎉

SNAICC’25 brought together people from across the country to share knowledge, culture and strength for our children. We’re honoured to have that work recognised.

Winners will be announced next week, so stay tuned!

13/10/2026

Boori Milumba is an Aboriginal-led early learning program run by Cullunghutti Aboriginal Child and Family Centre in Nowra NSW.

Through the program:
👉 88% of families felt like collaborative partners in their child's learning with educators.
👉 Two in three children started with a language delay. Their average language scores have since risen 7.9 points.

This is what investing in community-led programs looks like.

09/10/2026

Some snaps from the Early Childhood Australia Conference! 📸

From sharing resources and stories at the SNAICC booth, to presenting and talking about the deadly work thats happening in the sector, it was an incredible few days.

08/10/2026

Big news for our early years sector!

SNAICC is partnering with the Coaxial Foundation to launch two first-of-their-kind programs that tackle the biggest barriers to growing Aboriginal-led early childhood education and care:

- Nest and Nurture helps communities set up and run their own early childhood services, with intensive support along the way.

- The Workforce Innovation Fund puts grants in community hands to build workforce solutions that work for them.

Together, these programs will start to fill a huge gap and give more of our young ones the strongest possible start in life.

08/10/2026

Why does how we see government matter for our kids?

Nat Kendall-Taylor from The Frameworks Institute joins us on the SNAICC Yarns podcast to unpack how the country sees the government, and why it matters for our children and families.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

07/10/2026

In 2023, SNAICC delivered the WA Roadmap, a 10-year plan to reduce the number of Aboriginal children in care, shaped by 200+ community voices.

Three years on, it sits on a shelf gathering dust, with no response or action from the WA Government.

The solutions to the over-representation of Aboriginal children in child protection in WA are right in front of them - it's time to act on them.

Western Australia has a solution to what is being headlined as the current crisis in Aboriginal child protection. The WA government made a commitment four years ago to developing a road map to address the over-representation of Aboriginal children in the state’s child protection system, and reduce...

06/10/2026

YiSSA in Darwin is a safe space for Aboriginal families, children and survivors of domestic violence. Its closure puts hundreds of people at risk.

Join the community protest tomorrow at 8am at the Darwin Convention Centre.

06/10/2026

Kinship care isn't new. It's how our mob have always done it.

This Kinship Care Week, we're celebrating the family and community who step up and raise our kids with love.💛

02/10/2026

In this new episode of Kids, Culture Community: SNAICC Yarns, we chat with Nat Kendall-Taylor from The Frameworks Institute where we unpack the science of language and mindsets.

For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, raising children has always been a shared responsibility - it takes a village. But research shows that many non-Indigenous Australians see things through an individual lens, and that holds back support for the policies our families need.

A key take away from this conversation is that shifting mindsets will shift outcomes.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.