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High Quality Preschool Education

Last Updated Oct 6, 2008 04:49 AM

 

REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO THE PROVISION OF UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY PRESCHOOL EDUCATION

Foreword

Parents and researchers agree that the best start achild can have in life involves love, care and earlyeducation. Children who attend preschool havea better chance of succeeding at school and inlater life.
Yet more than 40,000 children in Australiamiss out on preschool education every year.

Children from the most disadvantaged familiesare more likely to miss out, including manyIndigenous children.

As a relatively wealthy country, Australia is one ofthe four lowest spending of 36 countries onpreschool education for children aged three yearsand over. The Commonwealth government providesassistance to all other sectors of education, but since1985 has provided no support to preschools.

This national under-resourcing of preschooleducation underpins many of the barriers thatcurrently prevent universal access to high qualitypreschool education.

Within it, different systems areproviding different levels of commitment topreschool education, leading to inequities in thecost to parents and the level of support andresources provided to services.

However good provision may be in particularstates and territories, from a national perspective,current provision of preschool education isinconsistent, fragmented and uncoordinated. Thereis no national policy, no national infrastructure toprovide the basis for planning and no coherentstrategies to ensure that all children in Australia canexercise their right to a free, public, high qualitypreschool education.

The AEU initiated this independent inquirybecause of our concern about the children whocontinue to miss out on such access. The inquiry isunderpinned by a commitment to equity and thebelief that all children in Australia should haveaccess to a high quality free public preschooleducation.

We congratulate Kathy Walker on hercommitment to the undertaking of this Inquiry andto listening so thoughtfully to the views of parents,teachers, government departments, early childhoodorganisations and other stakeholders. Their voicesare reflected in her report, which in our view makesa significant contribution in its research and in itsrecommendations about the way forward forAustralian preschool education.

We wish to thank the hundreds of people andorganisations who gave so freely of their time, theirexpertise and their views about what needs to bedone.
We urge all politicians to consider this report, andits recommendations, carefully. It provides a wayforward, for all our children.

 

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