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ACECQA wants to hear about families’ experiences choosing an education and care service for their child, and information they used to make their decisions. This survey is open to current…

The National Quality Framework (NQF) provides a national approach to the regulation of the quality of education and care services across Australia. It’s been five years since the last review…

The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) today released its 25th NQF Snapshot report, summarising quality rating results for education and care services operating under the National Quality…

The Australian Government recently released its Delivering Skills for Today and Tomorrow package, in response to the recommendations of the independent review of Australia’s vocational education and training (VET) sector…

ACECQA, in response to sector feedback, has developed a service Self-assessment Tool to support approved providers, service leaders and educators assess the quality of their education and care service’s practices…

Recognising the important role of the educational leader, and in response to sector feedback, ACECQA has developed and launched The Educational Leader Resource. This resource is a collection of practical…

Ms Judy Hebblethwaite has commenced her second term as the Chair of the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) Board and welcomed Professor Ann Farrell into her new…

Public consultation for SkillsIQ’s review of the children’s education and care training package has been extended until 29 March 2019. SkillsIQ’s website has the full details, including the draft revised…

Almost eight out of 10 (79%) education and care services are Meeting or Exceeding the National Quality Standard (NQS), according to the NQF Snapshot, Q4 2018 released today by the…

ACECQA, in collaboration with all governments, has released its second Annual Performance Report on the National Partnership on the National Quality Agenda for Early Childhood Education and Care. The report…