A second NSW children’s education and care service has been awarded the Excellent rating, the highest rating a service can receive under the National Quality Framework (NQF). Warrawee Care Centre joins 10 other services across Australia that have been rated ...

The Australian Government has announced the commencement of two critical policy commitments relating to childcare and early childhood learning.  They include the promise of an immediate review into the previous Labor Government’s administration of the Early Years Quality Fund (EYQF) ...

A NSW child-care centre has been rated as exceeding national standards across all seven quality areas of the National Quality Standard (NQS). UnitingCare’s St John’s Child Care Centre, in the Sydney North Shore suburb of Neutral Bay, had been given ...

Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare Kate Ellis has commended the Early Years Quality Fund Special Account Bill 2013 to the House of Representatives and spoken to counteract derogatory statements by columnist Judith Sloan and others about early learning and child ...

Western Australia’s Midvale Early Childhood and Parenting Centre has established a program that can help in pushing the quality of early childhood education and care forward. The centre, located at the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia, was recently visited by ...

The Community Child Care Co-operative (NSW) is calling on the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, to renew his commitment to early education. “We hope that in removing Early Childhood from the Education portfolio and thus out of Cabinet, that the issues of ...