From the Ground Up: Growing leadership skills in early childhood educators
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From the Ground Up: Growing leadership skills in early childhood educators

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…

The Cost of Late Intervention
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The Cost of Late Intervention

How Australia can invest in children and return more presents the opportunity for wise investments in evidence-based early intervention to radically change outcomes for Australian children and young people. This report reveals that Australian governments are spending $15.2 billion each year on high-intensity and crisis services for problems that may have been prevented had we…

Economic Analysis – Investing in early childhood education doubles the return to Australia
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Economic Analysis – Investing in early childhood education doubles the return to Australia

The Front Project commissioned the first comprehensive Australian analysis of the economic impact of early childhood education. The model looked at the impact of the current Australian system, which provides an early education program for 15 hours a week, delivered by a Bachelor qualified teacher, in the year before school. Our current system offers a…

25 NSW EC Organisations Call on NSW Gov to: Fund Two Years of High Quality Early Learning
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25 NSW EC Organisations Call on NSW Gov to: Fund Two Years of High Quality Early Learning

In this important election year, the NSW early childhood education and care sector has come together to call upon the next NSW Government to make a firm commitment to affordable, high quality early learning for our youngest learners. 1. All NSW children have access to affordable, high quality early learning for at least two days…

The ABC Reports: 80 per cent of 3 year olds to miss out on NSW preschool subsidies
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The ABC Reports: 80 per cent of 3 year olds to miss out on NSW preschool subsidies

On Friday 22 June 2018, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that 80% of 3-year-olds at preschool will miss out on the childcare subsidies announced in the NSW budget. The Early Learning and Care Council of Australia’s CEO Elizabeth Death provided commentary, stating: “It’s a model that works for families who have one parent who is…