Who Are We

The Childcare Leadership Alliance – Supporting the provision of high-quality early learning services that meet the needs of families and communities will set children up for success in school and life.

Address the challenges in the early learning sector, particularly the attraction and retention, ongoing professional development, and wages for qualified Early Childhood Teachers and educators, with a particular focus on the heightened challenges in regional communities.

Addressing the Childcare Challenge in Regional Australia

The communities of the Isaac Regional Council area are facing a significant childcare challenge, which impacts working families, children, local employers, and childcare operators.

There is a shortfall of places in local childcare centres to meet the needs of the community, and there simply aren’t enough educators and teachers. This means centres are unable to operate at full capacity, and it’s having a flow-on effect to working families. Without care, parents’ ability to fully participate in the workforce is limited (which predominantly impacts women); and there’s an impact on business productivity for their employers.

But most importantly, a lack of available places impacts young children, who lose the opportunity to participate fully in quality early learning. The majority of brain development occurs between birth and 5 years of age, and we know those early childhood experiences set the foundations for a child’s future development and learning outcomes. Kids in country Queensland deserve a chance to participate in quality early childhood education, to give them the best start in life.