Early years
$27.4B
dollars in expenditure
210K+
employees around Australia
23K+
organisations delivering services
1.95M+
children enrolled
Australia’s early childhood education and care sector is one of the nation’s most essential social and economic pillars. Supporting more than one million children from birth to twelve years of age, it underpins workforce participation, child development and community wellbeing through a network of community, private and not-for-profit providers.
The sector is experiencing significant reform, with a strong national focus on workforce capability, child safety, regulatory quality and educational outcomes. These priorities are driving change across the National Quality Framework, workforce strategy, and the implementation of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.
Services are balancing the need for affordability and accessibility with increasing expectations for inclusion, professionalisation and developmental outcomes. Sustaining quality now depends on strong, values aligned leadership and a skilled, supported workforce at every level.
Our offering
We partner with early childhood providers operating across community, private and not for profit settings, supporting them to navigate regulatory requirements, workforce challenges and increasing expectations around quality and safety.
Our work spans executive and operational leadership, pedagogy and curriculum roles, compliance and governance and centre based management appointments. We support organisations to build capability across both leadership and frontline workforce.
Our focus is on strengthening leadership and workforce capability to deliver safe, inclusive and high quality education and care for young children.
