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Appendix & Index - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
Unknown authorPublished 2007-01-01Open AccessOther -
Australian Women's Working Futures: Are We Ready?
Hill, Elizabeth; Cooper, Rae; Baird, Marian; Vromen, Ariadne; Probyn, ElspethPublished 2018-01-01Australian governments have made gender equality in the workplace a priority, citing women’s enhanced engagement in the workforce as essential to raising living standards and securing Australia’s future prosperity (Commonwealth ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Author Biographies - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
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Building access to high quality, flexible work
Cooper, Rae; Hill, ElizabethPublished 2021-11-30Research clearly demonstrates the benefits of high-quality flexible work for prosperous economies, businesses, and communities. Employers in all industries need access to a skilled and diverse workforce; governments can ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The childcare policy challenge in Australia
Hill, ElizabethPublished 2007-01-01Australian newspapers often feature stories about child care and its potential benefits or hazards and many parents read them diligently, wondering if they are making the right decisions for their own children. Controversy ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Childcare provision: Whose responsibility? Who pays?
Goodfellow, JoyPublished 2007-01-01Recent debates about the provision of child care for children of below school age have focused on issues relating to children, to families, to social capital building and to financial return on investment. The first of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Contested, corporatised and confused? Australian attitudes to child care
Meagher, GabriellePublished 2007-01-01Controversies about child care have been much in the news in Australia in recent times. Some commentators have damned the very existence of child care for very young children, using cortisol studies, among other evidence, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Covid-19, gender and work, October 2021
Hill, Elizabeth; Cooper, RaePublished 2021-10-15This Insights paper written for the Gender Equality in Working Life Research Initiative provides a high level summary of the evolving impact of the 2021 lockdowns on workforce gender inequality, based on ABS Labour force ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The determinants of quality care: review and research report
Sims, MargaretPublished 2007-01-01There is consensus around the world that young children must experience high quality services, not only to ensure the best possible future outcomes, but because children have the right to the best possible present (Elliott ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Employees’ views on quality
Rush, EmmaPublished 2007-01-01The results from a national survey of almost 600 long day care staff, carried out by the Australia Institute in late 2005, show that in most cases staff believe that the quality of care offered in their centre is quite ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Facilitating men’s involvement in care work
Hill, Elizabeth; Cooper, RaePublished 2021-11-30Research clearly demonstrates the benefits of men’s involvement in unpaid care for prosperous economies, businesses, communities and households. Young men increasingly expect to be able to combine care for family with a ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Front Matter - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
Pocock, Barbara; Hill, Elizabeth; Elliott, AlisonPublished 2007-01-01Open AccessOther -
Funding children’s services
Cox, EvaPublished 2007-01-01It is now over 30 years since the original federal Child Care Act was passed in the dying days of the McMahon Liberal government but funding and policy issues are still confused and contested. Many more child care places ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Getting the basics right – goals that would deliver a good national children’s services system
Wannan, LynnePublished 2007-01-01Over the past three decades Australia’s children’s services system has been transformed from a predominantly publicly provided and operated community based system to a privatised, commercial market driven system. Today 70 ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The goals of a good national system: placing priority on the wellbeing of children
Cass, BettinaPublished 2007-01-01This chapter takes a child-centred focus on debates about the goals of a good childcare system, and takes as its particular priority the interests and needs of children in low-income and socioeconomically disadvantaged ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Home and away: the policy context in Australia
Brennan, DeborahPublished 2007-01-01The policies that shape early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Australia are formulated within overlapping national and international contexts. Globalisation, the development of international law and the spread of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Improving early childhood quality through standards, accreditation and registration
Elliott, AlisonPublished 2007-01-01Social practices and community values and issues are always in the process of redefinition and reconstruction. This means that our views on what is appropriate for children’s care and education are constantly changing. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Introduction - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
Hill, Elizabeth; Pocock, Barbara; Elliott, AlisonPublished 2007-01-01Open AccessOther -
Investing in Care Key to Boosting Economic Growth
Hill, Elizabeth; Baird, Marian; Ford, MichelePublished 2019-01-01The need to increase women’s labour market participation and economic security is on the ‘to do’ list of most governments and major global institutions. Global consulting firm McKinsey calculates that global GDP would ...Open AccessArticle -
Lessons from the Swedish experience
Nyberg, AnitaPublished 2007-01-01An important principle in the Swedish welfare model is that all adults – women and men, mothers and fathers – should have the possibility to support themselves through wage work. Public child care constitutes a very important ...Open AccessBook chapter
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