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Child Care Industry News
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May 10, 2016
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Welcome, this week learn what Australia's early childhood education and care providers think is the single biggest issue facing the sector and results from the Australian Early Development Census.
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| What is the single biggest issue facing the Australian ECEC sector?
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Close to 4500 parents/carers and early childhood providers completed the 2016 Annual Child Care and Workforce Participation survey. The results offer unique insight into the daily experiences of Australian families and the health of the Australian child care system.
This year we wrote a series of questions specifically for early childhood education and care providers, those at the coalface of our system, delivering the high quality care that Australian families have become accustomed to.
We asked providers to identify the single biggest issue facing the Australian early childhood education and care sector and the results offer amazing insight into the challenges faced by people working in the sector.
What you said
We have chosen a representative sample of the responses to share with you this week:
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| 22 per cent of kids still developmentally vulnerable
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The 2015 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) results were recently released with data collected from more than 300,000 Australian children, representing 96 per cent of children in their first year of full-time school.
Key findings revealed that 22 per cent of children were developmentally vulnerable on one or more domains across the five AEDC domains. This is consistent with results from 2012 and is an improvement from 2009.
According to the Census significant gains have been made in children's language and cognitive skills, with only 6.5 per cent of children considered developmentally vulnerable on this domain. This represents a decrease from 6.8 per cent in 2012 and 8.9 per cent in 2009.
Overall, since the AEDC began in 2009, there has been an improvement in communication skills and general knowledge and less than10 per cent of children were considered developmentally vulnerable on this domain in 2015.
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