About Belinda

Hi, I’m Belinda Wright—the person behind Learn OSHC.

Founder and Director of Learning | OSHC Specialist | PhD Candidate | Casual Academic

Learn OSHC is a small, independent business created and led by me.

When you engage with Learn OSHC, you work directly with me. I develop the professional learning, create the resources, facilitate the coaching and bring my own experience, research and understanding of OSHC to every piece of work.

This personal approach is important to me. Learn OSHC is not a large training organisation delivering generic content across multiple sectors. It is a specialist business grounded in the distinct realities of Outside School Hours Care.

Belinda Wright

My experience in children’s services and OSHC

I have worked with children and young people for 26 years, including 15 years specifically within the OSHC sector.

My OSHC career began in direct practice and progressed through Educator, Coordinator, Service Manager, Regional Operations Manager and General Manager roles. Through these positions, I gained experience across service delivery, team leadership, quality improvement, compliance, workforce development, multi-site operations and organisational change.

At senior-management level, I held responsibility for large portfolios of OSHC services across New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. This gave me insight into both the daily realities of individual services and the broader systems, structures and leadership decisions that influence quality across organisations.

I understand what it is like to work directly with children and young people, lead a service, support educators, respond to families, navigate regulatory responsibilities and make decisions across complex operational environments.

That experience continues to shape everything I create through Learn OSHC.

Learn OSHC is personal

Learn OSHC reflects my belief that OSHC educators and leaders deserve professional learning developed specifically for their context.

School-age care has its own rhythms, relationships, responsibilities and possibilities. OSHC professionals work with mixed-age groups, short sessions, shared environments, complex transitions and children and young people who want meaningful choice, leisure, connection and agency outside the school day.
Professional learning for OSHC should begin with those realities.

Through Learn OSHC, I bring together practical sector experience, contemporary evidence, professional learning design and a deep commitment to making OSHC practice, leadership and professional knowledge more visible.

Because Learn OSHC is a small business, I can remain closely connected to the sector and the people I support. I can listen carefully, respond thoughtfully and develop work that reflects the real needs of educators, leaders, services and organisations.

Practice, university teaching and research

My professional work now extends across OSHC practice, professional learning, university teaching and research.

I am a PhD Candidate at Griffith University, researching educational leadership in Australian Outside School Hours Care. My research is part of a broader commitment to strengthening the evidence, language and professional knowledge available to the OSHC sector.

I also teach as a Casual Academic at Australian Catholic University, contributing to the preparation of future educators through early childhood education units.

In 2026, I presented my research internationally at the GELYDA International Conference in Seoul. This provided an opportunity to bring an Australian OSHC perspective into international conversations about extended education, leadership and professional practice.

My academic background also includes postgraduate study in education, learning and leadership, and research methods. I am completing a Master of Education in Learning and Leadership and have completed graduate qualifications in Education—Learning and Leadership and Research Studies in Business.

My university teaching and research do not sit separately from Learn OSHC. They deepen the work I do through the business by helping me connect current scholarship with practical sector knowledge.

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Professional Memberships, Networks and Affiliations

I maintain active professional memberships and research affiliations across learning and development, extended education, play and the broader education and care sector.

Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD)

Professional Member | MAITD
I am a Professional Member of the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD). My membership supports my ongoing engagement with contemporary learning design, workplace learning and capability development, strengthening the evidence-informed approach I bring to professional learning through Learn OSHC.

WERA Task Force on Extended Education

Member | Leadership Focus Group
My involvement in the WERA Task Force on Extended Education connects me with an international community of researchers and practitioners focused on extended education, including emerging work in leadership.

GELYDA

Founding Member
My involvement with GELYDA supports international exchange around extended education, leadership and the development of practice across diverse national contexts.

Early Childhood Australia (ECA)

Member
Membership of Early Childhood Australia keeps me connected with wider professional conversations about children’s learning, quality practice, leadership and the education and care sector.

Play Australia

Member | Certified Playwork Practitioner
Through Play Australia, I have completed the Playwork Practice course, developing specialist knowledge of playwork principles and practice. This informs my approach to supporting children’s play, agency and leisure within OSHC and strengthens the playwork perspective I bring to professional learning through Learn OSHC.

What I do

Through Learn OSHC, I create and deliver OSHC-specific:

  • professional learning and development
  • short practical webinars and learning resources
  • leadership and team development
  • coaching for OSHC educators and leaders
  • operational and practice consulting
  • reflective tools and professional resources
  • articles, blogs and research-informed sector commentary
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My work supports Educators, Educational Leaders, Coordinators, Approved Providers, service leaders, operational teams and organisations seeking professional learning that is relevant to the conditions of school-age care.

I am also interested in opportunities involving university teaching, guest presentations, conference speaking, professional learning partnerships, research translation and sector collaboration.
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Why I do this work

I believe strongly in the value of OSHC and the people who work within it.

Educators and leaders need more than information about what they are required to do. They need opportunities to understand why their work matters, develop confidence in their professional judgement and connect regulatory and curriculum expectations with the children, young people and communities they support.

My aim is to make professional learning practical without making it simplistic, and evidence-informed without losing sight of the realities of everyday practice.

I want educators to recognise the knowledge they already hold, develop the knowledge they need next and feel better equipped to make thoughtful decisions in their work.

I also want OSHC to be more visible within broader conversations about education, care, leadership, workforce capability, play, leisure and children and young people’s lives.

How I work

My approach is grounded in being:

Open-minded
I remain curious, reflective and willing to consider different perspectives.

Supportive
I create learning that builds people’s confidence and capability rather than focusing only on what they do not yet know.

Honest
I communicate clearly about the opportunities, tensions and practical realities of OSHC work.

Connected
I connect research with practice, expectations with everyday decisions, and professional learning with the conditions educators and leaders experience.

I do not believe that every service needs the same solution. Each service and organisation has its own children, young people, families, community, workforce, history and priorities.

My role is to help people think more deeply, identify practical ways forward and build approaches that can be sustained within their own context.
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Work with me

When you work with Learn OSHC, you are working directly with an experienced OSHC practitioner, senior manager, learning designer, researcher and educator who understands the sector from multiple perspectives.

Whether you are looking for professional learning, coaching, consulting, a guest presenter, sector collaboration or support developing the capability of your team, I would be pleased to hear about your needs.

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