Child Development & Behaviour Specialists provides professional behaviour consulting, professional learning, and practice support for educators, leaders, and organisations across early years, OSHC, school, and care settings.
CDBS strengthens behaviour, wellbeing, and educator practice through evidence-informed, strategy-led approaches that support consistent, safe, and effective responses across teams and environments.
Behaviour is shaped by patterns, informed decision-making, consistent practice, and predictable, supportive environments
CDBS works with schools, early years, and OSHC settings to strengthen behaviour practice at both the practice and systems level. Work focuses on building shared understanding, strengthening professional judgement, improving educator response, and embedding consistent approaches that can be sustained across teams, environments, and service structures.
CDBS supports settings to understand behaviour within context and implement practical, relevant, and structured approaches that strengthen everyday practice.
CDBS approaches behaviour as meaningful information shaped by development, relationships, environment, expectations, stress, skill level, and broader practice and system influences. Behaviour is not viewed in isolation. It is understood within the context in which it occurs so educator responses, team consistency, environmental factors, and implementation decisions can be strengthened more effectively.
This approach supports educators to respond intentionally, reduce escalation, and strengthen safety and wellbeing for everyone within the environment.
CDBS works with schools, early years, and OSHC settings to strengthen behaviour understanding, educator practice, and implementation consistency across teams. Support is shaped by setting context, identified practice needs, and the level of guidance required, with a focus on practical application, professional judgement, and sustainable approaches that strengthen day-to-day practice and decision-making.
Tailored to setting context, team needs, and behaviour practice priorities
That builds knowledge, confidence, and applied educator skill
For teams, leadership groups, conferences, and professional audiences
To strengthen consistency, processes, and practice implementation
Kelly Oldfield is an Australian early years and education behaviour, wellbeing, and practice systems advisor, and the Founder of Child Development & Behaviour Specialists.
Her work focuses on strengthening educator practice, behaviour understanding, implementation consistency, and systems capability across schools, early years, and OSHC settings.
Kelly is known for strategy-led, practice-informed support that helps organisations strengthen behaviour decision-making, improve consistency, and respond with greater clarity and professional confidence.
Her work draws on formal qualifications in psychology and behaviour, alongside extensive applied experience supporting educators, leaders, and organisations to strengthen behaviour, wellbeing, and practice systems across diverse education and care settings.
Kelly’s Qualifications
