Welcome to OMEP Australia!

Welcome to this web site which will be regularly updated and we expect that the information, articles and resources will be a source for inspiration and hope for all people with an interest in the early years. We hope that you will find it useful too.

Who would have thought of web pages and cyberspace as a means of communication sixty years ago, when in 1946 Lady Allen of Hurtwood and Alva Myrdal presented their plan for the creation of a world organisation with a principal focus on the welfare of children 0-8 years.

Today, OMEP can be found in over 60 countries. It is an international non-profit, non-government, community based organisation dedicated to the enhancement of health, education and welfare for children 0-8 years.

Our broad membership mirrors the wide interest groups who contribute to early childhood, including medicine, social work, psychology, nursing, law, architecture and education as well as bureaucrats and policy makers at all levels of government and in the community. OMEP has a history of parent involvement, sometimes at the highest level of the organisation.