The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD)
Website: www.education.vic.gov.au
The information on this page is taken from the DEECD website.
Mission
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) brings together a range of services for young people from before birth to the beginning of adulthood.
The Department has four main responsibilities:
- provide policy advice to our Ministers about education, early childhood development and children's services in general
- implement Victorian government policy on early childhood services
- implement Victorian government policy on school education (including non-school based education approaches such as home schooling) for all school age students
- manage and drive continuous improvement in the delivery of primary and secondary education in Victorian government schools.
Within these responsibilities, the Department is focused on the provision of services to children. These services are provided both directly and indirectly - directly through government schools; indirectly through regulation or funding of early childhood services and non-government school education.
For Students
From the student section of the DEECD website you can access many resouces for students from early childhood to secondary students. Most of these resources revolve around education and not careers however some career-related resources can still be found from the website:
- The Futures Channel
- Youth Central
For Schools
DEECD hosts some resources for schools, most of these are for work experience. From the DEECD website you can find:
- Career and Transition Lesson Programme
- Work Experience and Structured Workplace Learning
- safe@work
- OnTrack Destination Data (very useful when undertaking a destination study)
While these sites are hosted by DEECD they are not that easy to find from the DEECD website. You can find direct links to them in the Career Resources -> For Career Practitioners or via the Resources Index.
More detailed information about Work Experience and Structured Workplace Learning can be found at our Workplace Learning section.
LLENs
Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLENs) are a Victorian Government initiative. LLENs bring together education providers, industry, community organisations, individual and government organisations to improve education, training and employment outcomes for young people in communities across Victoria. There is a statewide network of thirty one LLENs which were established in 2001-2002. They focus on young people aged 15-19, with a particular emphasis on those at risk of not completing year 12 or its equivalent.
The DEECD LLEN and other networks overview website can be found at:
www.education.vic.gov.au/sensecyouth/llennetworks.htm
and the direct link to the LLEN website is: