The Early Childhood Council has welcomed moves to ECE teacher pay parity, and the Minister’s signals the funding system is set to be overhauled.

The early learning sector has been excluded from MIQ spaces freed up for refugees, students, and construction and RSE workers.

Struggling Early Childhood Education providers say a modest part of the $926 million recovery budget would help them stay open and re-invest in the children they care for.

In May, it will be ten years since Early Childhood Education centre funding was frozen. Centre owners and managers hope this unwanted milestone will end in this year’s budget.

Early learning centres are asking the government to include them on pay parity funding increases in the upcoming budget.