Early Childhood Australia (ECA), the national children’s peak body, has urged the Productivity Commission to put the interests of children first during its Inquiry into Child Care and Early Childhood Learning. In a comprehensive submission to the Inquiry, ECA outlines ...
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The building blocks of a better system?
With a raft of national reforms in the process of implementation, Australia’s early learning landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. The result of a Council of Australian Government (COAG) commitment to improving outcomes for young children, the reforms are detailed ...
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Childcare providers have called on the federal government to slow the rollout of its planned reforms to the sector until it can afford to fund them entirely. A draft Productivity Commission report into Australia’s early childhood development workforce has found ...
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NSW and Victoria are ahead of the other states when it comes to implementing national early childhood education reforms, a new report has found. But federal child care minister Kate Ellis praised each state and territory on the steps they ...
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