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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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Our Child Development Professionals

Dr Michael Nagel
Associate Professor, School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Michael C Nagel is an Associate Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast where he researches and teaches in the areas of child and adolescent development, behaviour and educational psychology. A prolific author, Dr Nagel has written seventeen books related to human development and education with...

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

Dr Susan Moloney
Director of Paediatrics Gold Coast University Hospital

Jane De Vita
Early Learning Consultant, Goodstart Early Learning

Sharon McKinlay
Early Learning Consultant, Goodstart Early Learning