The Community Child Care Association (CCC) and Community Early Learning Australia (CELA) have written to the Prime Minister with an actionable effective plan to ensure all children can access safe high quality education and care services.

Dear Prime Minister,

Your government has listened to families, educators and services, prioritising major reforms in your first term that have established the foundations for universal early childhood education and care. We are already seeing the benefits of these landmark reforms.

We now must ensure that universal access to education and care means universal access to high quality services. A safe system is based on high quality, but quality does not happen by chance.

Australia has a world class quality framework through the National Quality Standard. However, improvement is needed across state and federal regulators to consistently uphold these standards using effective assessment, rating and compliance levers.

Families, educators and services all want a system that is based on high quality. The Australian Government must play a leadership role in solving the policy and regulatory barriers that are creating quality and safety issues in education and care services. Without national leadership, more children will be put at risk.

CCC and CELA have demonstrated our steadfast commitment to supporting major education reform in partnership with governments and educators, with a strong focus on effective implementation and communication.

We encourage you to adopt our plan to create the education and care system that children and families need.