Media release 1 March 2023 Workforce shortages are placing increasing pressure on all parts of the early learning and care sector. Across Australia, thousands of qualified early learning educators and teachers are needed to meet existing vacancies, with staffing shortfalls leading to fewer spaces for children at their most critical period of development, and impacting…
Media release 9 February 2023 The Early Learning and Care Council of Australia (ELACCA) is delighted to welcome the appointment of Professor Emerita Deborah Brennan AM as co-lead of the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Australia’s early childhood education and care (ECEC) system. Professor Brennan is one of the country’s leading social policy thinkers, and published…
Media release 23 January 2023 The Early Learning and Care Council of Australia (ELACCA) is delighted to announce the appointment of SDN Children’s Services CEO Kay Turner and Busy Bees Early Learning Australia CEO Rob Hughes as co-chairs of the national organisation. “Ms Turner and Mr Hughes bring a wealth of experience in the sector,…
From the Ground Up is an innovative six-month leadership program for early childhood educators in ELACCA member organisations, developed by academics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), led by Associate Professor Megan Gibson. The program is designed to build applied leadership skills among early childhood educators and to strengthen and extend the leadership skills of…
Media release 23 December 2022 There is just one thing Australian early childhood educators have on their Christmas wish-list this year – a better pay packet from the Australian Government. The Early Learning and Care Council of Australia (ELACCA) CEO Elizabeth Death said that early childhood teachers and educators have again been the mainstay of…
Media release 24 November 2022 Families will have access to more affordable early learning and care from July 2023 after the Australian Government’s Cheaper Childcare Bill passed this week. The Early Learning and Care Council of Australia (ELACCA) welcomes the investment that will reduce out-of-pocket expenses for families, access to early learning for First Nations…
Media release 26 October 2022 Last night’s Federal Budget delivers welcome investment for Australian families and the early learning and care sector. ‘We applaud the Government’s $4.7 billion investment to increasing affordability of early learning and care for Australian families’ said Elizabeth Death, CEO of the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia (ELACCA). ELACCA…
