The Parenthood's CEO, Georgie Dent, writes to the Productivity Commission
The report identifies, in Finding 4.3, there are 328,000 parents not participating in the paid
workforce as much as they would like due to barriers around ECEC, namely difficulty with cost and
lack of access. This finding certainly affirms the experience of thousands of parents and carers in
The Parenthood’s community.
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