Child care: A better policy framework for Australia

Title Page
Acknowledgements
Author biographies
Introduction
Elizabeth Hill, Barbara Pocock and Alison Elliott
Part 1 Defining a high quality ECEC system
1 The childcare policy challenge in Australia
Barbara Pocock and Elizabeth Hill
2 Lessons from the Swedish experience
Anita Nyberg
3 Home and away: the policy context in Australia
Deborah Brennan
4 The new discrimination and child care
Patricia Apps
Part 2 Setting the goals for a national system
5 The goals of a good national system: placing priority on the wellbeing of children
Bettina Cass
6 Getting the basics right – goals that would deliver a good national children’s services system
Lynne Wannan
Part 3 Perceptions of child care
7 Contested, corporatised and confused? Australian attitudes to child care
Gabrielle Meagher
8 Employees’ views on quality
Emma Rush
Part 4 The question of quality
9 Public investment, fragmentation and quality care – existing challenges and future options
Frances Press
10 Improving early childhood quality through standards, accreditation and registration
Alison Elliott
11 The determinants of quality care: review and research report
Margaret Sims
Part 5 Who should pay? Who should provide?
12 Childcare provision: Whose responsibility? Who pays?
Joy Goodfellow
13 Funding children’s services
Eva Cox
Appendix 1
Participants at ASSA workshop Child care: A better policy framework for Australia, University of Sydney
July 13–14, 2006.
Appendix 1
Index
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