‘Early childhood is the launchpad for life’: report proposes reforms for young children A new report is proposing a decade of reforms to create a guarantee for young children and families. The Centre for Policy Development’s Travers McLeod says one in five Australian children start school developmentally vulnerable.
New Materials: Early Childhood Initiative Evidence Pack 1 The Early Childhood Initiative Evidence Pack has been adapted from materials prepared by the CPD team for the first two meetings of the ECD Council. This initial pack focuses on early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a key part of the broader ECD system.
Early childhood educators are leaving in droves. Here are 3 ways to keep them, and attract more Childcare centres across Australia are suffering staff shortages, which have been exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Many childcare workers across Australia left when parents started pulling their children out of childcare due to the pandemic, especially casuals not eligible for JobKeeper. And when the federal government introduced its temporary free childcare package, centres struggled to get the staff back.
Integrating foundational supports in early learning services key to an inclusive, equitable ECEC system A new report from the Centre for Policy Development (CPD) and The Front Project calls for Governments to ensure that Foundational Supports can be integrated into mainstream early learning services to build a more inclusive and equitable early education and care (ECEC) system.
Bold reform needed to tackle issues with Australia’s early learning system A new CPD report has highlighted that achieving the government’s ambition for truly universal early education and care, one that works for all children and families, will be possible through bold reforms implemented over the course of the next decade.
Inquiry into Early Education and Care Draft Report: Submission to the Productivity Commission The Centre for Policy Development made a submission to the Productivity Commission that provides feedback regarding its draft report on the Inquiry into Early Education
Submission to the Early Years Strategy Our Early Childhood Development Initiative made a submission to the Government’s Early Years Strategy, which seeks to ‘help the Commonwealth create a more integrated, holistic approach to the early years and better support the education, wellbeing and development of Australia’s children.’
MEDIA RELEASE: CPD Welcomes Joint Commitment to Transform Early Education Thursday 16 June 2022 – The Centre for Policy Development (CPD) welcomes today’s joint announcement that Victoria and New South Wales will introduce a universal preschool year as a critical systemic reform with major long-term benefits for children and families. This bipartisan, interstate collaboration is a leading example of the joint effort required between all governments to deliver early childhood reform across the nation. The $9 billion and $5.8 billion packages in Victoria and New South Wales respectively will mean that over the next decade, every child in both states will experience a full year of play-based learning before they start school.
New report calls for Governments to ensure foundational support for equitable ECEC A new report from the Centre for Policy Development (CPD) and The Front Project calls for Governments to ensure that Foundational Supports can be integrated into mainstream early learning services to build a more inclusive and equitable early childhood education and care (ECEC) system.
