Inquiry into the Provision of Childcare
Information about the Inquiry
On 25 November 2008 the Senate referred the following matters to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee for inquiry and report.
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the financial, social and industry impact of the ABC Learning collapse on the provision of child care in Australia;
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alternative options and models for the provision of child care;
- the role of governments at all levels in:
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funding for community, not-for-profit and independent service providers,
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consistent regulatory frameworks for child care across the country,
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licensing requirements to operate child care centres,
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nationally-consistent training and qualification requirements for child care workers, and
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the collection, evaluation and publishing of reliable, up-to-date data on casual and permanent child care vacancies;
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the feasibility for establishing a national authority to oversee the child care industry in Australia; and
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other related matters.
Submissions should be received by 30 January 2009. The reporting date is 17 September 2009. On 29 October 2009,the Senate granted an extension of time for reporting until 23 November 2009.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to eewr.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3521 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5706 or by email to eewr.sen@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Committee Secretary
Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia