This capacity study on the workforce needs for Australia’s Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector provides critical evidence, insights, and recommendations as appropriate to support current and future workforce planning, including a detailed understanding of the current state and future needs of the sector’s workforce, with a focus on attraction and retention. The study...

The report examines accessibility to childcare using the most recent data. The authors find that despite some progress in recent years towards a greater provision of childcare in underserved areas, new approaches are needed in order to meet the aim of universal access.

This technical report presents the findings from a study that uses large-scale data to examine how specific aspects of quality in early childhood education and care relate to learning and development outcomes for children in Australia.

This report explores sharing child care within opposite-sex couple families using the 4 Families in Australia Surveys conducted in 2020 and 2021. A key aim of this work was to find out how diverse the arrangements of parents are when it comes to sharing child care between partnered parents.

This report outlines essential steps for achieving a truly universal early education and care system. The report calls for reforms to enhance accessibility, affordability, and quality in early learning. The key reforms suggested aim to align Australia’s early learning system with other universal systems, like schooling and Medicare.