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MINIMUM AUSTRALIAN CHILD CARE STANDARDS: A COMPARISON WITH INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKS
Author(s) -
Murray Sally
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1997.tb01059.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , project commissioning , child care , publishing , set (abstract data type) , best practice , state (computer science) , political science , medicine , computer science , medical education , nursing , law , algorithm , programming language
In 1994 the State, Territory and Federal governments agreed upon a set of minimum regulatory standards for long day centre‐based child care. This article compares those standards with two international benchmarks for minimum standards in child care. The Australian standards are barely adequate at best when assessed against those benchmarks. It is an open question how much improvement the new child care accreditation system can achieve without improvements in the underlying regulatory requirements.