Have you, or someone you know, recently left the early childhood education and care sector? Early Childhood Australia would like to hear the experience of people who have recently left the sector. Please follow the link to complete a short survey. bit.ly/3QrL1MD

Congratulations Prof. Karen Thorpe on your ARC Laureate Fellowship award. A great accolade to you and a much needed study of quality early childhood education and care for our profession. bit.ly/3x1nPOo #EarlyLearningMatters

Early Childhood Educators rock 💃 🎶 - they deserve better pay & conditions.

Urgent action is needed to improve pay conditions for early childhood teachers and educators to reflect the value of the ECEC profession to Australian children, and society. Read our media release here: bit.ly/3D5aHvo

#auspol #OzEarlyEd

We support calls for an immediate wage increase to show the value of early childhood teachers and educators work delivering positive outcomes for children.

Urgent action is needed to improve conditions for early childhood teachers and educators to reflect the value of the ECEC profession to Australian children, and society.

We support a better deal for early childhood teachers and educators and today’s nationwide day of action.

Early childhood teachers and educators deserve better pay and conditions through long-term structural reform.

Next week is Early Childhood Educators’ Day & a day of action. Changing the narrative to reflect the value of educators' work delivering positive outcomes for children is a small & easy step so we don't need days of action. See our guide to language here: bit.ly/3Q50XUR

Strong consensus at the Jobs and Skills Summit to invest in early childhood education and care. Read our latest media release: bit.ly/3OLx3VN
#EarlyLearningMatters #JobsSummit #JobsSummit 2022

Final comment fr Andrew Forrest Minderoo Foundation calling for new approaches to addressing drug & alcohol issues as well as fully funded universal access to early learning - recognising the rapid brain development occurring in the early years #JobsSummit

Prof. Sara Charlesworth fr RMIT University calls for fully funded early childhood education and care to lift workforce participation and ensure that all children have access to quality early education, plus a raft of IR such as eliminating split shifts to support families #JobsSummit

.Angela Jackson calls to scrap the Activity Test which prevents many families accessing the Child Care Subsidy - locking around 125,000 children out of early education - consistent with advocacy from SNAICC Early Childhood Australia @ThriveByFive & many others 👏 👏 #JobsSummit

Panel on migration & tech but Mina Radhakrishnan talks about the importance of managers in workplaces - supporting & developing new entrants, important for skills development & longevity. This is a challenge for early childhood atm because we have lost so many experienced pple #JobsSummit

NSW Premier Dom Perrottet spoke to collaboration between Fed and State Govts to boost skilled migration & other strategies to address workforce shortages including childcare (sic) - noting NSW budget ECEC workforce measure #JobsSummit

When asked by Brendan O'Connor how to drive better access to skills as well as jobs for those less advantaged .. Prof Bentley Federation University says it starts with early education & investment in better access preschool! 👏 plus some other strategies of course. #JobsSummit

Day 2 opened by Brendan O'Connor shifting the focus to skills, then Jennifer Westacott welcoming consensus in women’s workforce participation as a key economic priority not an afterthought + we have consensus on the importance of early education - time to get on with it! #JobsSummit