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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...

Dr Rebecca English
Lecturer, Faculty of Education (QUT)

Keti Ivanoska
Acting Director and Educational Leader, Goodstart Early Learning

Marie Stuart
State Social Inclusion Coordinator QLD for Goodstart Early Learning

Dr Susan Moloney
Director of Paediatrics Gold Coast University Hospital