Browsing Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia by publication year
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The childcare policy challenge in Australia
Published 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 -
The determinants of quality care: review and research report
Published 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 -
The new discrimination and child care
Published 2007-01-01Over the last decade a number of countries, notably the USA, the UK and Australia, have introduced new tax and welfare programs, or expanded existing programs, that have the effect of raising tax rates on the income of the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Employees’ views on quality
Published 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 -
The goals of a good national system: placing priority on the wellbeing of children
Published 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 -
Childcare provision: Whose responsibility? Who pays?
Published 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 -
Lessons from the Swedish experience
Published 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 -
Improving early childhood quality through standards, accreditation and registration
Published 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 -
Public investment, fragmentation and quality early education and care – existing challenges and future options
Published 2007-01-01This chapter seeks to outline, critique and challenge Australia’s current approach to the provision of education and care services to children and their families. In doing so, the chapter highlights the complexities and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Getting the basics right – goals that would deliver a good national children’s services system
Published 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 -
Front Matter - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
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Home and away: the policy context in Australia
Published 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 -
Contested, corporatised and confused? Australian attitudes to child care
Published 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 -
Appendix & Index - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
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Author Biographies - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
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Introduction - Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia
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Funding children’s services
Published 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