NACBCS promotes not-for-profit children's services in Australia by:

  • advocating for and assisting the development of community owned children's services providing good quality care.
  • initiating public action to promote and defend community owned children's services throughout Australia.
  • acting on behalf of community owned children's services in relation to governments and other bodies.

NACBCS is the peak representative body for all Australian community owned children's services including Long Day Care and Out of School Hours Care services. NACBCS is an unincorporated non-profit organsation. The
Association is democratic in structure and relies on participation and inclusive processes to achieve our goals.

Each branch and territory has a NACBCS branch, which brings together individuals and organisations at a regional level to work towards achieving our goals.

Community Child Care Victoria manages the National Secretariat function for the Association from its offices in Melbourne.

Fund community child care

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Increase Wages for Child Carers

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·Stop Destructive Competition

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View NACBCS Policy Document -
A National Policy for Australia - 2004 and beyond

 

NACBCS NATIONAL CONFERENCE

July 2006

The NACBCS National Conference was held on 14 and 15 July 2006. Papers and presentations from the conference can be downloaded below:

NACBCS Media


Current National Campaigns

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Advocacy & Campaigns

State and Territory Branches

VICTORIA

NEW SOUTH WALES

QUEENSLAND

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

TASMANIA

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

To contact the NACBCS Secretariat
please email
nacbcs@cccinc.org.au

Branch Contacts


Parents Story

This Saturday 18th September 2004, our Centre is celebrating "getting together" by attending a morning at a local park between 10.30am - 12.30pm.

Our volunteer parent management committee are arranging to provide sausages in bread and vegie burgers for all adults and children and families provide anything else they may want for the morning. We have also arranged for a childrens entertainer to attend for an hour during the get together.

We are expecting in excess of 75 people for the morning and late RSVP'S are still leaking in.

It all began with an idea to provide an informal get together during the year for families and staff to get to know each other better, with an opportunity for the children to have a different kind of fun to the one they know within our Centre, on a day they can share with their own family members. All our permanent staff members have willingly expressed their commitment to be there.

The Centre is now a-hum with the forthcoming event and parents are visibly eager to attend as are the children. My feeling is one of overwhelming sense of community and goodwill.

I feel very proud to be a part of such a warm and positive community that is our small community based Centre and the people within it are fundamental to creating that feeling. Everyone is happy to pitch in and I know Saturday will be a special experience for everyone.