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Bicultural Inclusion Support Services
PSCWA is funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) to provide bicultural inclusion support to early childhood services to enable them to include children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CaLD), humanitarian refugee children and Indigenous children.
BISSWA provide the following support to early childhood services:
- assistance in communicating with families and children from diverse cultural backgrounds. This could include interpreting support, verbal translation of enrolment documents and the provision of key words and phrases to help communication with a child;
- assistance in understanding the cultural backgrounds, experiences and child rearing practices of a child and their family;
- cultural information to increase staff’s knowledge on the understanding of relevant cultural issues;
- training workshops relating to specific cultures;
- support with the implementation of culturally appropriate practices and an anti-bias curriculum;
- referral to professional development, inclusion support and resources through PSC WA and ISA’s;
- information about relevant community resources and services to support the inclusion of children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds; and
- bicultural advice and support to Inclusion Support Facilitators.
BISWA Fact Sheets can be accessed here.
 Click here for a Multicultural Calendar, with a focus on ‘Child Rights’, which was co-created by our friends and colleagues in Queensland at PSCQ and the Multicultural Development Association. Enjoy celebrating these events in your centres in ways that are meaningful to your children and their families.
For further information regarding BISS support, please phone our Helpline on 1800 783 768.
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Contact Us
5 Carson Road, MALAGA WA 6090
PO Box 2562, MALAGA WA 6944
Helpline: 1800 783 768
Facsimile: (08) 9249 4366
Email: pscwa@childaustralia.org.au
Need Help?
Contact the free PSCWA Helpline on 1800 783 768.
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