Kids Count : Better Early Childhood Education and Care in Australia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Elizabeth.

Contributor:

Pocock, Barbara.

Elliott, Alison.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Child care services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Author biographies

Introduction

Part 1 Defining a high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) system

1 The childcare policy challenge in Australia

2 Lessons from the Swedish experience

3 Home and away: the policy context in Australia

4 The new discrimination and child care

Part 2 Setting the goals for a national system

5 The goals of a good national system: placing priority on the wellbeing of children

6 Getting the basics right – goals that would deliver a good national children’s services system

Part 3 Perceptions of child care

7 Contested, corporatised and confused? Australian attitudes to child care

8 Employees’ views on quality

Part 4 Perceptions of child care

9 Public investment, fragmentation and quality early education and care – existing challenges and future options

10 Improving early childhood quality through standards, accreditation and registration

11 The determinants of quality care: review and research report

Part 5 Who should pay? Who should provide?

12 Childcare provision: Whose responsibility? Who pays?

13 Funding children’s services

Appendix 1

Index

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ISBN:

9781743329382

1743329385

OCLC:

1434177434