National Workforce Forum
On behalf of all governments, ACECQA hosted the first biennial National Workforce Forum in November 2023. The forum is an important component of Shaping Our Future, the National Children’s Education and Care Workforce Strategy (2022-2031).
The 2023 forum focussed on 11 of the 21 actions of the strategy, as outlined in the implementation tracker of the online dashboard.
The forum also welcomed the Productivity Commission who shared their draft report, as well as speakers from Forbes Preschool, Child Australia, HumanAbility, Jobs and Skills Australia, and Macquarie University, who highlighted a range of practices, programs and research designed to support the children’s education and care workforce.
- FA1-3 Enhance mentoring and induction support for new teachers
- FA1-5 Agree and consistently use contemporary terminology to describe children's education and care sector and its workforce
- FA2-1 Review and develop targeted programs
- FA3-3 Investigate options for a national professional practice network for educators and teachers
- FA4-1 Investigate options for improved wellbeing supports
- FA4-3 Initiate and promote research monitoring the wellbeing of educators and teachers
- FA5-1 Review staffing and qualification requirements under the NQF, with a focus on early childhood teachers and outside school hours care educators
- FA5-2 review requirements for early childhood teaching programs under the NQF
- Sector presentation - Forbes Preschool
- Sector presentation - HumanAbility
- Sector presentation - Jobs and Skills Australia
- Sector presentation - The Productivity Commission
- Sector presentation - Thriving Futures Child Australia
- Sector presentation - Teachers in Early Education (TEE) project
- Communique - National Workforce Forum
Shaping Our Future acknowledges and builds on the significant investment by all governments to date in workforce related initiatives, as well as a range of recent and ongoing initiatives launched by the children’s education and care sector.