Kids Count: Better early childhood education and care in Australia: Recent submissions
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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