Passage of the Early Childhood Legislation (Child Safety) Amendment Bill 2025 will drive the most significant strengthening of child safety requirements in early childhood education and care since the ...

Sasha Shunk spends story time with the children in her home-based child care program in Portland, Maine. Credit: Courtesy Sasha Shunk The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) has released its ninth Annual Performance Report on the National Quality Framework (NQF), confirming the sector’s steady upward ...

The Center for American Progress has developed a data dashboard that allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics, including access ...

Significant legislative changes designed to strengthen child safety, accountability and workforce oversight across early childhood education and care (ECEC) services have begun rolling out nationally, ...

Child care providers and employees have kept our economy going during a time when the government, businesses and families have been focused on Covid-19 “rescue.” Now, as we move to “recovery,” ...

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Local families are struggling to find affordable, quality child care and preschool, a problem that hinders companies’ ability to hire workers, leaves some kids unprepared for kindergarten and takes a ...

The Child Care for Working Families Act would invest in the United States’ care infrastructure, growing the economy while lowering child care costs for the middle class. A mother holds her young child ...