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Access to Early Childhood Education (Australia)
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Access to Early Childhood Education (Australia)

S. Hesterman
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2020
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Abstract

Since the 1980s Australia has experienced increased demand for childcare services due to increased female work participation rates (Mastrullo and McCinally 2016; Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia 2005). This has resulted in the growth of the early childhood sector in the form of centre-based day care (CBDC) services both in number and scale of service provision. However, access to affordable early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is not equal across the country. Attendance may be dependent on family income, geographical accessibility, parents’ preference for various service types, such as CBDC, family day care (FDC), and kindergarten/preschool, as well as the availability of places within the service...

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