{"id":1608,"date":"2015-05-01T01:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2015-05-01T01:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:13:54","slug":"quality-child-care-is-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2015\/05\/01\/quality-child-care-is-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality child care is a good start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Director Professor Frank Oberklaid has published an opinion piece in The Australian outlining why greater public investment is needed for quality early childhood education and care in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/opinion\/quality-childcare-is-a-good-start\/story-e6frg6zo-1227329017316\">article<\/a>, he says \u201cQuality, or educational, childcare is a high-return investment for governments that has the potential to amplify the development and long-term earning prospects of millions of Australian children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreater public investment is needed for the extra training and staff needed to get quality into all forms of childcare without leaving low and middle-income families further out of pocket. This is as important to productivity as increasing women\u2019s participation in the workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/opinion\/quality-childcare-is-a-good-start\/story-e6frg6zo-1227329017316\">Read the full opinion piece in The Australian<\/a>, co-authored by Sarah Wise, University of Melbourne and Berry Street Childhood Institute, or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/files\/2015\/05\/150501_Quality-childcare-is-a-good-start-_The-Australian_Frank-Oberklaid.pdf\">download a PDF of the article.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>More information:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/for_professionals\/Productivity_Commission_Inquiry\/\">Productivity Commission Inquiry<\/a> page for reports, evidence papers, videos and presentations relating to the Inquiry.<\/li>\n<li>Read the latest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kVrGE2\">Policy Brief<\/a>: The future of early childhood education and care services in Australia<\/li>\n<li>Watch\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/ccch\/about_us\/Early_Childhood\/\">Brain Builders<\/a>, an animation explaining the science behind early brain development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Frank Oberklaid: Why we cannot ignore the connection between child development and economic development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937],"tags":[5965,11952,5969,8475],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-early-childhood-education-and-care","tag-frank-oberklaid","tag-productivity-commission-inquiry","tag-quality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}