SDN Children's Services is contracted by the Australian Government to deliver Inclusion Support Agency services in the following three regions:

Inner Sydney, Cumberland/Blacktown and Northern Sydney.

Inclusion Support Agencies are part of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program (IPSP), a new integrated approach to meeting the professional and inclusion support needs of child care services.

Each Inclusion Support Agency manages a network of skilled Inclusion Support Facilitators who work at a local level with child care services to:

1. Build their capacity to create an inclusive environment for all children and families, that supports their wellbeing and development.

2. Promote the awareness of and responsiveness to the following priority groups:

• children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including refugee children

• children with ongoing high support needs including children with a disability

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

Services that are eligible to access inclusion support are:

• Australian Government approved Child Care Services, including both private and community centre based long day care, outside school hours care including vacation care, family day care, occasional care, and in-home care.

Australian Government funded non-mainstream child care services (non-Child Care Benefit) such as flexible/multifunctional services, Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services (MACS), non-mainstream outside school hours care, non-formula funded occasional care (100 per cent Australian Government funded) and mobile child care services.

SDN Inner Sydney Inclusion Support Agency:

This provides services to eligible child care providers in the following LGAs:

• Botany Bay

• Leichhardt

• Marrickville

• Randwick

• City of Sydney

• Waverley

• Woollahra

Contact
Mandy Meredith (Manager)
SDN Inner Sydney Inclusion Support Agency
Level 1, 3 Linthorpe Street, Newtown, NSW 2042
Phone: 9557 0183
Email: M.Meredith@sdn.org.au

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SDN Cumberland/Blacktown Inclusion Support Agency:

This provides services to eligible child care providers in the following LGAs:

• Auburn

• Blacktown

• Holroyd

• Parramatta

Contact
Trish Gibbs (Manager)
SDN Cumberland/ Blacktown Inclusion Support Agency
28 Cowper Street Granville NSW 2142
Phone: 9897 3635
Email: T.Gibbs@sdn.org.au

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SDN Northern Sydney Inclusion Support Agency

This provides services to eligible child care providers in the following LGAs:

• Hunters Hill

• Lane Cove

• Manly

• Mosman

• North Sydney

• Pittwater

• Ryde

• Warringah

• Willoughby

Contact
Julie Pearson (Manager)
SDN Northern Sydney Inclusion Support Agency
SDN Northern Suburbs Early Learning Centre,
8 Rodborough Avenue, Crows Nest, NSW 2065
Phone: 9955 3665
Email: J.Pearson@sdn.org.au

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Download our brochure Inclusion Support Agencies and the first edition of the SDN Inclusion Support Agencies magazine Inclusion Works.

SDN Inclusion Support Agencies are an initiative of the Inclusion and Professional Support Program, funded by the Australian Government.