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“The skills and abilities acquired in early childhood are fundamental to a person’s success and well-being in later life. A positive early childhood provides personal and economic benefits to the individual and also to society.”
A Practical Vision for Early Childhood Education and Care - PwC report 2011
“Today’s rising generation in the countries of the OECD is the first in which a majority are spending a large part of their early childhoods, not in their own homes with their own families, but in some form of child care”UNICEF (2008), ‘The childcare transition,’ Innocenti Report Card 8
• 992,520 children in approved care• 115,660 in FDC nationally• 38,410 in FDC in NSW• 419 FDC services nationally• 116 FDC services in NSW
Latest figures
Priorities
• Establishing consistent procedures for the NQF• Determining qualifications and training for
authorised officers• Determining approved qualifications• Setting and awarding highest rating for services
– Excellent• Communicating with the sector
Keeping in touch• Email
• Telephone– 1300 4 ACECQA
• Facebook– www.facebook.com/ACECQA
• Twitter– @ACECQA
• ACECQA Blog– We hear you– http://acecqa.gov.au/wehearyou/
Practical SupportThe ACECQA website hosts a wide range of practical resources and templates such as:• Quality Improvement Plan• Information sheets• Medication Record• FAQs
Come to ACECQA for:• information and news on the NQF• resources and templates• downloading application and notification forms• link to NQA ITS• qualification lists• assessment of qualifications• excellent rating applications• second tier review applications
Come to your Regulatory Authority for:• Submitting application and notification forms• Temporary and service waivers • Provider/service and certified supervisor
approvals• Information about assessment and rating• Information on transitions and savings
provisions unique to your jurisdiction.
Use the secure portal to:• apply for approvals (provider, service, supervisor
certificates)• amend a provider or service approval• notify a change of nominated supervisor• seek a service waiver or temporary waiver• submit a serious incident report or notification of
complaints received at the service• amend a supervisor certificate• pay fees online