Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry on Early Childhood Education and Care
The NFAW supports measures that improve the affordability, accessibility and quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC).
Submission on the Australian Government’s Early Years Strategy
The NFAW supports measures that improve the affordability, accessibility and quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC), early childhood development (ECD) and the well-being of children and families.
Submission to the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022
In general we support the provisions of the Bill. However, we note that there are key features of the current child care system implemented in 2018 which have not been addressed in this Bill. They warrant further consideration and review. Some of these issues were raised in the Government’s independent Evaluation of the Child Care Package (AIFS, 2022).
Statement of Principles – Early Childhood Education and Care and Paid Parental Leave
The National Foundation of Australian Women’s (NFAW) policy position on Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Paid Parental Leave (PPL) is set in the context of a productivity agenda to help boost economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Early childhood education and care – 2019
Nearly 1.3 million Australian children are enrolled in approved child care services.1 While the provision of affordable ECEC is a ‘workforce issue’, enabling parents to work outside the home, it is also critically important for the development of children.
NFAW statement on the child care, paid parental leave and family tax bill omnibus budget savings bill
The National Foundation for Australian Women deplores both the content and process of the Bill now before the Parliament. We urge the Parliament to reject the Bill.
Detailed impacts of the February 2017 proposals to cut family benefits
Impacts of Government proposals to cut family benefits. 1.1 million families will lose FTB-A Supplements of $726 per child.
NFAW Submission to the Senate Committee on the Jobs & Families Child Care Package
NFAW has a strong policy of support for women to make their own life choices – to choose to be a home maker, to choose to do paid work, to choose part time work if that is a real choice. Responsibility for bearing and rearing children, rightly or wrongly falls mostly on women.
NFAW submission to the Productivity Commission review of child care and early childhood education
The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), having given evidence to a hearing of the Commission, undertook to bring some further information to the Commission. We will not comment on every issue raised in the Interim Report. Our specific submissions are set out below.