Today, the Australian Government introduced legislation for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector.
The proposed changes make the legislation clearer, promote transparency, and remove ambiguity.
Gathering information about the cost of delivering ECEC
The changes allow us to require providers to share information about how much it costs to deliver ECEC. This will support the Early Education Service Delivery Prices project.
Sharing and disclosing information collected under Family Assistance Law (FAL)
The changes mean we can share and disclose information about providers and services that we collect under FAL if it is already publicly available. This includes information available from public sources like ASIC or ABN registers. It means we can use public data to collaborate with the public, private and research sectors. This does not change the strong protections in place for information about children and parents.
Technical amendments to remove inconsistencies
These include:
- a change to align the date of effect of certain CCS eligibility and entitlement decisions with the Child Care Subsidy System
- two minor technical amendments to improve consistency by refining previous legislative changes.
These amendments have little to no impact on providers, services or families.
The changes are subject to the passage of legislation.
For more information, visit the Ministers' media centre.