COAG QUALITY ANNOUNCEMENTS December 2009 At last, the long awaited quality changes have now been announced. The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed on 7 December 2009 to a partnership between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments to establish a new National Quality Agenda for early childhood education and care. You can read CCC's media release and our initial analysis CCC Response to the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework The CCC submission to the trial document proposes some changes to make the Framework more inclusive of the National Early Years Learning Framework and of OSHC. You can download CCC's submission here Joint Statement on National Quality Reforms 11 key Victorian organisations have signed a joint statement calling on Australian Governments to uphold best practice in children's services and to strive for international best practice for Australia's children. You can download the joint statement here
National Early Childhood Reforms COAG have signed off on a National Quality Agenda and consultations on the Regulatory Impact Statement have been underway since July 2009. CCC has submitted a response to these important reforms and you can read CCC's submission here
Children's Services Regulations 2009 The Children's services Regulations came into effect of 25 May 2009 - heralding an era where OSHC and Family Day Care have been regulated for the first time in Victoria. Click here to go to our Regulations page where you can download a copy of the Regulations, and check out the DEECD website for more information
Care for Babies Campaign Did you know that the unit on Care for Babies is only an elective in the Certificate III in Children’s Services?
This means that there may be graduates working in babies’ rooms that do not have the necessary skills to care for babies. Those of us with a commitment to high quality care must lobby our state training authorities to have Care for Babies made compulsory.
Click here to read and download the lobby kit ACCS has prepared to advocate that Caring for Babies is compulsory in the Certificate III in Children's Services.
COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO COLLAPSE OF CORPORATE CHILD CARE CCC has been actively supporting the community sector in their response to the collapse of corporate child care. We have been sending updates which can be downloaded from our response to the collapse of corporate child care page.
The latest information you can download is 'Eight Lessons for Community Service Providers' which has been created in light of information provided at the Due Diligence seminar held on 2 February 2009.
CCC has also posted some policy advice regarding submitting a non-binding EOI
For further information: Call 9486 3455 Freecall: 1800 177 017 SUBMISSIONS AND REPORTS CCC has still been busy responding to various consultations and Inquiries and most recently CCC submitted a response to the Productivity Commission re the Contribution of the NFP sector, Victorian Early Years Learning and Development trial document, the National Compact consultation, the Australian Treasury Inquiry into Creeping Acquisitions, the National Human Rights consultation and the DHS consultation into a portable long service leave scheme for the community sector click here to read the submissions
You can also read CCC's submissions to the Inquiry into Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities emphasizing the importance of Multifunctional Aboriginal Children's Services by visiting our Submissions and Reports page or by clicking here
Look for this logo as proof that a child care service is genuinely a not-for-profit community owned service.
CCC is the Professional Support Coordinator (PSC) for Victoria, click here to visit the PSC website
