Sue Cant

Sue Cant has worked in early childhood for nearly thirty years. After completing her initial early childhood teaching qualification in Sydney, she headed off to the wilds of Papua New Guinea where she worked in international schools. Teaching preshool and infants classes, there were sometimes up to fourteen different nationalities among the children. There was no better beginning to her career, teaching her to be an effective communicator and a resourceful, creative and independent teacher.

Two children and the better part of ten years later, she and her partner returned home to Australia where she worked for eight years in long-daycare centres, furthering her studies at the same time.

In 1998, Sue and her family decided to make a tree change and moved to the beautiful Southern Highlands of NSW. For the last nine years she has worked fulltime teaching Child & Family Studies, running in-service training courses for early childhood workers and teaching parenting courses. People who know Sue will attest to the fact that she is deeply passionate about the right of children and families to quality early childhood services, the role of play in enhancing children's development and learning and, most of all, the importance of family.