Kids Count

Name: Kids Count
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781920898700
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Better Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia

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Kids Count addresses the rising demand and challenges in Australia's early childhood education and care sector. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, educators, advocates, and social policy experts, it explores the goals and necessary elements of a high-quality, equitable care system. Topics include quality standards, funding, provider roles, workforce training, and regulation, offering comprehensive policy principles to improve Australia's childcare landscape.
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This book is essential for policymakers, educators, childcare professionals, and researchers interested in early childhood education and social policy within Australia.

Looks at the demand and availability of child care and early childhood education and how major political parties have failed to take a comprehensive approach to development policy. Asking the question what would a good system of early childhood education and care look like in Australia?

Description

Demand for childcare has soared over the past decade as Australian families seek to reconcile work and care responsibilities. But the cost of care keeps rising, waiting lists in many metropolitan centres are long, and high quality services are not always available.

Australia's system of early childhood education and care is fragmented, and the major political parties have failed to take a comprehensive approach to policy development. So what would a good system of early childhood education and care in Australia look like?

In Kids Count, a selection of Australia's leading early childhood researchers, teachers, advocates and social policy experts consider:

The goals of a good national system
How a high quality and equitable early childhood education and care system can be delivered
What makes quality care?
Who should provide and who should pay?
Training and professional development for workers
Regulation and funding of services

The authors offer a comprehensive set of policy principles that would deliver a better early childhood education and care regime for Australian children and their families.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781920898700

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2007

Country: Australia

Imprint: Sydney University Press

Illustration: 4 b&w ill., 6 col. ill., 30 tables

Contributors:

Edited by Elizabeth Hill
Edited by Alison Elliott
Edited by Barbara Pocock

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 405g

Pages: 288

Collections

Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

About the editors:

Elizabeth Hill is a senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney.
Barbara Pocock is professor emerita of business services at the University of South Australia.
Alison Elliot is the Head of the School of Education at Charles Darwin University.