Handy hints and tips for getting started with the Inclusion Support Portal.
Try these reflective questions to use with this video, either individually or at your next staff meeting or PD session:
- What are the benefits of having access to the IS Portal?
- How can you use the IS Portal to document and improve your practice?
- What are some ways you can share information on the IS Portal with your team?
Reflective questions_Inclusion Support Portal: Tips and tricks
A Strategic Inclusion Plan (or ‘SIP’) is a planning tool for services accessing the Inclusion Support Program. It documents goals and progress, helping your service to ensure all children experience a sense of belonging.
Try these reflective questions to use with this video, either individually or at your next staff meeting or PD session:
- When it comes to inclusion, what are your biggest goals?
- What are the benefits of having a Strategic Inclusion Plan (SIP)?
- How and when can you use a SIP as a planning and documentation tool?
- How does a SIP link to your Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) and why might it be a valuable asset during the assessment and rating process?
- How can a SIP help you get ahead when it comes to supporting the inclusion of all children at your service?
Reflective questions_What is a Strategic Inclusion Plan (SIP)?

This guide outlines VIA's requirements relating to branding and acknowledgement in its communications and publications. This guide has been created for use by Inclusion Professionals.

This guide outlines a clear process for the Inclusion Professional where a FDC service is based within one VIA region but has an educator, who requires program support or funding support, operating within another VIA region. This guide is intended for use by Inclusion Professionals.
Services will be able to select from a list of pre-determined inclusion barriers and strategies in the IS Portal. This document contains a list of the Department of Education, Skills and Employment's inclusion barriers and strategies and their respective definitions.
This form replicates the information required in the Inclusion Support (IS) Portal for a Strategic Inclusion Plan (SIP). Education and care services may use this form to gather and document planning information required to be inputted into the IS Portal, if they wish to have a record outside of the portal.
This form replicates the information required in the Inclusion Support (IS) Portal for a Strategic Inclusion Plan (SIP). Family day care education and care services may use this form to gather and document planning information required to be inputted into the IS Portal, if they wish to have a record outside of the portal.
Inclusion Planning for SIP: Whole Service Family Day Care (Paper based)
This form replicates the information required in the Inclusion Support (IS) Portal for a Strategic Inclusion Plan (SIP). Family day care educators may use this form to gather and document planning information required to be inputted into the IS Portal, if they wish to have a record outside of the portal.
Inclusion planning for SIP: Family Day Care Educator (Paper based)
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