We welcome feedback on our draft findings and draft recommendations about affordability, accessibility, and consumer choice in early childhood education and care.
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is reviewing the NSW early childhood education and care sector. Early childhood services include:
long day care, family day care and occasional care (for children aged 0-5 years)
NSW Department of Education preschool, community and mobile preschool (for children aged 3-5 years, focusing on the year before school)
outside of school hours care (before and after school care and vacation care) (for school children up to 12 years of age).
We have released an Interim Report with draft findings about factors that drive affordability, accessibility, consumer choice and supply of early childhood services, as well as draft recommendations to improve affordability and accessibility. We’ve also published a short Overview summarising our draft findings and recommendations.
Tell us what you think
IPART welcomes feedback from the community, including families from all backgrounds across NSW, as well as providers and workers in the sector, advocacy groups and sector representatives. This will help us make final recommendations to the NSW Government to help ensure better outcomes for families and children.
You can respond until 17 November 2023 by:
doing a survey and/or taking our quick poll
telling us your story, or
making a submission.
We will also hold an online public hearing on 30 October 2023, which will provide another opportunity to provide feedback. IPART will make final recommendations in December this year.
We may publish the results from the survey or quick poll. We may also anonymously publish survey free text responses and stories in line with IPART’s Submissions Policy.
IPART’s review is focused on the NSW experience - there are also 2 national inquiries under way into early childhood education and care by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Productivity Commission.
Thank you for your feedback
This engagement is now closed. Thank you for participating. We are currently reviewing your feedback.
We welcome feedback on our draft findings and draft recommendations about affordability, accessibility, and consumer choice in early childhood education and care.
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is reviewing the NSW early childhood education and care sector. Early childhood services include:
long day care, family day care and occasional care (for children aged 0-5 years)
NSW Department of Education preschool, community and mobile preschool (for children aged 3-5 years, focusing on the year before school)
outside of school hours care (before and after school care and vacation care) (for school children up to 12 years of age).
We have released an Interim Report with draft findings about factors that drive affordability, accessibility, consumer choice and supply of early childhood services, as well as draft recommendations to improve affordability and accessibility. We’ve also published a short Overview summarising our draft findings and recommendations.
Tell us what you think
IPART welcomes feedback from the community, including families from all backgrounds across NSW, as well as providers and workers in the sector, advocacy groups and sector representatives. This will help us make final recommendations to the NSW Government to help ensure better outcomes for families and children.
You can respond until 17 November 2023 by:
doing a survey and/or taking our quick poll
telling us your story, or
making a submission.
We will also hold an online public hearing on 30 October 2023, which will provide another opportunity to provide feedback. IPART will make final recommendations in December this year.
We may publish the results from the survey or quick poll. We may also anonymously publish survey free text responses and stories in line with IPART’s Submissions Policy.
IPART’s review is focused on the NSW experience - there are also 2 national inquiries under way into early childhood education and care by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Productivity Commission.
Thank you for your feedback
This engagement is now closed. Thank you for participating. We are currently reviewing your feedback.
