The national children’s peak body Early Childhood Australia (ECA) has welcomed the Commission of Audit’s recommendation to merge the child care rebate and the child care benefit into one payment. However, ECA CEO Samantha Page has cautioned that the structure ...

Analysis by Early Childhood Australia (ECA), the national children’s peak body, shows that government subsidies for early childhood education and care have steadily fallen behind the cost of service delivery. As a result, subsidies cover an ever smaller proportion of ...

Sydney’s inner west recently welcomed 50 new childcare places funded by the federal government. The new places have been created thanks to a $3 million capital works grant provided by the federal government for the construction of a new early ...

Early Childhood Australia (ECA) has expressed its disappointment with the lack of quality investment for the sector in the federal budget. According to ECA CEO Samantha Page, a considerable and sustained investment in early childhood education and care is essential for giving ...

More than $25 billion will be invested by the Australian government over  four years to ensure that Australian parents can return to work and Australian children can attend day care centres. According to Minister for Early Childhood Peter Garrett, the ...

Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) has expressed disbelief regarding Minister for Youth Peter Garrett’s announcement that the Early Years Quality Fund will enable an increase in wages for only 27 per cent of the long day care sector. The Early Years Quality Fund ...