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Extra cash fails to fix funding issues in early education

Though it is an improvement to see more funding for pay parity, it would be far better to recognise the public good early childhood education provides and commit to funding top quality services accessible to all families, argues associate prof Sue Cherrington

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Poor pay driving workers from early education sector

SA's Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care has been told that poor pay is the main issue driving workers from the sector.

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Call to recognise Indigenous skills of early educators

SA's royal commission into early childhood education and care has been told of the importance of recognising the special skills brought by Indigenous educators.

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'No-frills' Budget won't cut it for early childhood education

Dr Sophie Moullin makes the case for government-provided early education, arguing subsidies won't solve the childcare crisis.

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Childcare workers’ union to seek 25% pay rise after Labor budget snub

Sector already in crisis will lose workers to better paid aged care unless there is ‘significant uplift’ in wages, UWU says

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Childcare cost relief for Aussie families

More than one million Australian families will soon get cheaper child care, with extra money also set aside to hire more early educators. The Albanese

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Labor boasts $9bn budget boost to childcare but advocates fear activity test will remain

The activity test, which reduces payments when one parent works less than 15 hours a week, would cost $1.3bn to abolishGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

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Alabama governor ousts a top education official over a book's 'woke concepts' on race

Gov. Ivey replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book that Ivey said teaches "woke concepts" because of language about inclusion and structural racism.

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Early educators around the world feel burnt out and devalued. Here's how we can help

South Australia’s royal commission into early childhood education led by Julia Gillard has released an interim report. The key recommendation is preschool for all three-year-olds (in a move similar to other states). But the report notes one of the critical considerations around this change will be the early education workforce.

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How Two-Eyed Seeing, 'Etuaptmumk,' is changing outdoor play in early childhood education

A knowledge and research collective at Humber College has been working to create, teach and evaluate a new course in the early childhood education program, Two-Eyed Land-Based Play and Co-Learning.

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UnitingCare program offers early childhood education and play for rural and remote children

For two weeks at a time, live-in educators are supporting young children in rural and remote families through "playing and learning", filling the gap in early childhood education services.

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The people who care for and educate our children deserve better pay - here's why that would help us all

Pressure on working parents has been building for a long time, with daycare costs increasing as places become more scarce. Two recent reports clearly illustrate the dysfunctional nature of England’s system of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).

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Large nationwide childcare provider faces liquidation

Education union and ministry are also hot on Rainbow Corner, owner of home-based care operation Porse.

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Better, cheaper childcare is on the horizon in Australia, but 4 key challenges remain

About 100 early childhood experts are meeting in Canberra today for a national summit on children who are five and under.

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'Child care' or education? Words matter in how we envision living well with children

As people across Canada begin to understand the implications of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program, public conversations often centre on the economic benefits of getting children back into quality child care, and their parents or guardians back into a robust Canadian economy.

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Top expert to lead major inquiry into childcare system

The government has asked the Productivity Commission to look at how to make early childhood education more affordable and available.

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker has vowed to bring preschool to every Illinois child. That’s easier said than done

CHICAGO — In his second inaugural address in January, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised to “make preschool available to every family throughout the state” — a feat that will require solutions to staffing shortfalls, school capacity limitations and an increase to the state’s nearly $600 million early childhood education block…

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Early childhood education report shows advantages for adults decades on, savings for government

A new federal government review shows just how critical the emotional and educational experiences of early childhood education are for children's futures.

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A push to raise the school starting age to 6 sounds like good news for parents, but there's a catch

The decision about whether to send a child to school “early” or “hold them back” can be a tortuous one for families who have a child born in the first half of the year.

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England's early years educators are underpaid and undervalued – only government investment can improve this

Early education and care for children aged from birth to five in England is at a critical point.

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Childcare subsidies won't fix staffing shortage, Flinders Island residents say

Childcare is set to become more affordable, but not all families will reap the benefits.

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Childcare short thousands of workers

The early childhood education sector will need to hire 16,000 new workers to meet surging demand from the Labor government's childcare subsidy package.

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Budget 2022: Treasurer details budget in Press Club speech, after yearly inflation hits highest point since 1990 — as it happened

The government warns of tough times ahead for families after delivering its first budget, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers saying inflation "will get worse before it gets better."

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Indian Government expenditure on early childhood education only 0.1% of GDP

The study calls for raising it to 1.6% to 2.2% of GDP

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EU proposes raising targets for children in nurseries, kindergartens

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed raising non-binding targets for early childhood education and guaranteeing affordable long-term care services in a bid to support the sector and improve women's participation in the labour market.

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