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Robyn Monro Miller has been elected as the President of the International Play Association (IPA), the first Australian to hold that position in the Association's 56 year history.

Announced at the triennial meeting of the IPA in Calgary, Canada earlier this month, Miller was elected unanimously by the delegates representing more than 30 countries.

Miller is the Chief Executive Officer of Network of Community Activities in NSW and current Chairperson of the NSW Children’s Week Committee.

She has 25 years experience working with children and families across education, community and local government sectors and with qualifications in education, children’s services, community management, and training and workplace assessment she is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and seminars across Australia and internationally as well as a spokesperson on children's issues in the national media.

As Editor of the quarterly newspaper Network News her advocacy work extends to the written word and she is a regular contributor to newsletters and websites on the topic of middle childhood, children’s services, leadership, and the importance of play.

Miller has represented the school age care sector at a State and National level for the past 20 years as Chair of the National Out of School Hours Services Association (NOSHSA), delegate to the National Children’s Services Forum (NCSF), NSW Children's Services Forum, NSW Industry Liaison forum, Vice President of Contact Inc. for Remote and Isolated Families and a member of the Executive of the NSW Children’s Week Committee.

Her bi-partisan advocacy has included presentations at a number of Government inquiries and her commitment to children recognised through representation on key Australian Ministerial and Government Advisory Councils since 1996. Highlights of this advocacy being her work on the development of the first National Quality Assurance system for Out of School Hours Services in Australia and Chairing the Inclusion Sub-Committee for the Commonwealth Child Care Advisory Council and it’s report to the Commonwealth Government ‘Child Care beyond 2001’.

Miller was one of the champions for the development of the first Australian school age care framework and on the steering committee for the development of ‘My Time, Our Place’.

A member of the International Play Association since attending her first IPA conference in Melbourne in 1993, Miller was formally co-opted to the position of Vice President of the International Play Association in 2012.

Prior to this time Miller had served in the role of Regional Vice President.

In 2012, she was part of the international delegation to the United Nations in Geneva to progress the development of the UN General Comment on Article 31 ‘The child’s right to play’ and in 2013, Miller facilitated an International World Café on Article 31 at the official launch in Geneva of the General Comment. Most recently in 2016 she was in Geneva for the International Day of Discussion on children and the natural environment and worked on the IPA project ‘Under the same sky’. 

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