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Australia’s early childhood system is under pressure — with rising costs, uneven access, inconsistent quality and alarming failures in safety and oversight.
Every child deserves the best possible start in life, and every family deserves access to early childhood education and care they can trust.
We’re calling on the Federal Government to create a National Early Childhood Commission: an independent body with the power to lead reform, enforce consistent national standards and make quality and safety non-negotiable across the country.
Across Australia, families are navigating an early childhood system that’s difficult to access and inconsistent in quality. Every child deserves to be safe, supported, and nurtured in their early years — no matter where they live.
In regional and remote areas, services are limited and waitlists are long. Many families everywhere face rising costs, limited hours, and a system that often falls short of meeting their needs.
We need a national solution — one that brings together early learning, care, health, and family support into a system that works... read more →
The Parenthood is an advocacy organisation working to make Australia the best place in the world to be a parent.
It is only when parents and caregivers are supported that children can thrive.
We've built a community of over 80,000 mums, dads and carers and come from every state and territory across Australia.
We are not-for-profit and independent.
We represent 80,000+ parents and carers from every state and territory who share our vision and we'd love to represent you too!
If you believe we need:
- better paid parental leave;
- totally affordable, great quality early childhood education and care;
- access to family friendly workplaces arrangements: or
- all of the above
Find out more about our new report.
Hear from real parents and find out how they manage the complexities of parenthood and the varying ways in which they handle the small and not so small challenges of being a parent.
I’m determined to demand better outcomes for parents and families across Australia at this critical moment in history. To do that, I need you. I need your voices. I need your willingness to engage on these issues.
The real question for Australia is not whether we can afford to have quality early childhood education, but whether we can afford not to.
Expanding Paid Parental Leave and creating universal access to quality, inclusive Early Learning & Care and Outside School Hours Care represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform our country for the better.