Early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Australia looks at both formal and informal types of care. These include formal child care, which is provided predominantly through long day care and outside-school-hours care (OSHC), and informal child care, in which families rely on grandparents or other relatives, friends, neighbours or nannies to care for their children. The National Quality Framework, introduced in 2012,  provides a national approach to regulation, assessment and……

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