The IEUA has forwarded its submission to the Productivity Agenda Working Group on the proposed National Quality Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care.
The Framework is part of the Rudd Government’s early childhood education agenda, and once in place will hopefully provide high quality education and care to all Australian children, and give parents more information about their child care centre or preschool.
In its submission, the IEUA addressed many of its key concerns for the early childhood sector and the impact this has on members.
The IEUA argues that: “the size and diversity of the sector impacts on the industrial context, and the salary and working conditions that have been negotiated into awards and collective agreements for early childhood educational professionals in all States and Territories reflects a similar complexity and diversity.”
“The IEUA is responsible for negotiating many of the awards and collective agreements for members in community kindergartens, preschools and early childhood centres (both profit and community based and preschools attached to schools. The processes and outcomes of these negotiations as well as the experiences of our members have strongly formed the basis for our views regarding this sector.”
To read the submission in full click here