1. Bicultural Support Pool

Formerly known as the Casual Ethnic Workers Pool (CEWP), the Bicultural Support Pool is a special group of Bicultural Support Workers that assist children's services to work successfully children from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background and Indigenous backgrounds.

These workers are available to-

Assist in the initial settling-in period of children from CALD, refugee or Indigenous backgrounds for a limited period;

Provide initial language assistance to children, parents and staff, in order to help families and the service communicate;

Introduce the child's culture to the service by assisting children, staff and parents to develop and present multicultural games, songs, food and culturally appropriate activities;

Assist staff to understand diverse cultural practices and child-rearing practices in Australian society;

Promote children's self esteem about their cultural heritage;

Encourage maintenance of, and support the development of, the child's home language.

The service is free of charge for eligible children's services.

The Bicultural Support Pool is run by Ethnic Child Care Family & Community Services Co-operative for Children's Services Central.

Children's Services Central is a program of the Alliance of Children's Service, the Professional Support Co-ordinator in NSW. The Professional Support Co-ordinator is an initiative of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program funded by the Australian Government.

For more information regarding the Bicultural Support Pool contact 9569 1288.

For a Bicultural Support Worker, contact your regional Inclusion Support Agency or Children's Services Central on 1800 157 818.

The Bicultural Support Pool is currently recruiting new bicultural support workers. [Click for more information]
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2. Latest Newsletter

The August 2007 newsletter is available to download here (PDF, 10.2MB)
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3. BSP Training 2007

The 2007 BSP Metropolitan Orientation Training is available to download here (PDF, 53KB)
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4. Links
www.cscentral.org.au
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