National Preschool Census

• National Preschool Census 2009 and 2010 Summary Reports

Child Care Access Hotline

• Child Care Access Hotline 
  ( PDF 114KB | RTF 17KB) 

Child Care Census

• 2006 Child Care Census of Childcare Services
• Previous Child Care Census Publications 

Child Care Fact Sheet Kit

• Information for Families using Child Care fact sheets

Child Care Fact Sheets

• Child Care Benefit - summary of rate changes from July 2011
  ( PDF 104KB |  RTF 70KB)
  
• Changes to requirements for Child Care Service Providers
  ( PDF 48KB | RTF 19KB)
• Special Child Care Benefit for hardship (for approved child care services)
  ( PDF 71KB | RTF 44KB)
  
• Special Child Care Benefit for children at risk (for approved child care services)
  ( PDF 87KB | RTF 72KB) 
• Care for Preschool Children in Before School Care and After School Care Services
  ( PDF 222KB | RTF 4.0MB)
• Frequently Asked Questions - Care for Preschool Children in Before School Care and After School Care services ( PDF 326KB | RTF 90KB)

Child Care News

• Child Care News Issue 27, December 2011
  ( PDF 2.72MB | RTF 418KB)
  
• Child Care News Issue 26, September 2011
  ( PDF 1.69MB | RTF 296KB)
• Child Care News Issue 25, May 2010
  ( PDF 2.4MB | RTF 123KB)
• Child Care News Issue 24, December 2009
  ( PDF 1.7MB | RTF 229KB)
• Child Care News Issue 23, August 2009
  ( PDF 1.5MB | RTF 225KB)
• Child Care News Issue 22, April 2009
  ( PDF 122KB | RTF 16KB) 

Child Care Provider Survey

• 2009 Report on Government Services, Supplementary Tables 

Child Care Service Handbook

• Child Care Service Handbook 

Child Care Rebate

• Important changes to the Child Care Rebate that you need to know

Child Care Update

• Child Care Update, February 2011 ( PDF 259KB | RTF 348KB)
• Child Care Update, August 2011 ( PDF 1.47MB | RTF 388KB)
• Child Care Update, January 2012 (PDF 866KB | RTF 5.03MB)
• Child Care Update, February 2012 (PDF 889KB | RTF 5.45MB)
• Child Care Summary Data, Financial Year 2010-11 (PDF 680KB | RTF 2.71MB)

Child Care Vacancies

• Child Care Vacancies Quarterly

Early Learning Resources

• Early Childhood Education Resources

Forms

• Forms referred to in the Child care Services Handbook can be found at the Child Care Services Handbook page.
•  Notifying when Closing, Selling or Transferring Ownership or Management of a Service form
  (RTF 64KB)
• Notification Advice for Approved Child Care Services Form
  ( PDF 87KB | RTF 370KB)
  
• Notification of Changed Numbers of OSHC Places Being Offered by an Existing Service form
  ( PDF 67KB | RTF 649KB) 
• Form for Child Care Providers to register or update their fee and service information for publication on the MyChild website, see Information for Child Care Providers.

Guidelines

• Family Day Care Funding 2010-11
  ( PDF 504KB | RTF 259KB)
• Family Day Care In Venue Care Funding 2010-11
  ( PDF 155KB | RTF 358KB)
• In Home Care Funding Program Guidelines 2010-11
  ( PDF 353KB | RTF 966KB)
• Long Day Care Funding 2010-11
  ( PDF 321KB | RTF 774KB)
• Occasional Care Funding 2010-11
  ( PDF 280KB | RTF 567KB)
• Outside School Hours Care Funding 2010-11
  ( PDF 369KB | RTF 567KB)
• Non-formula Funded Program 2010-11
  ( PDF 259KB | RTF 504KB)
• Non-mainstream Program Guidelines  2010-2011
  ( PDF 771KB | RTF 880KB)
• Business Continuity Payments
  ( PDF 513KB |  DOCX 12KB | RTF 6.65MB)

Instruction Sheets

Links

• Australian Government Sites
• State and Territory Government Sites

National Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Census

• National Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Census 2010 results

National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education – Annual Progress Reports

• 2010 Annual Progress Reports
• 2009 Annual Progress Reports

National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education 2010 annual report

• NP ECE 2010 annual progress report ( PDF 1.6MB | RTF 2.01MB)

A Shared Early Childhood Development Research Agenda:

• Key research gaps 2010–2015 ( PDF 1.50MB |  DOCX 417KB)

Report by the Boston Consulting Group

• National Early Childhood Development Strategy
  ( PDF 259KB | RTF 796KB) 

Report on the State of Child Care in Australia

• Report on the State of Child Care in Australia, April 2010
  ( PDF 481KB | RTF 733KB)

Submissions

• Submissions - August and September 2008