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As Christmas 2018 approaches, ACA is proud to join forces with our friends at Foodbank to support this year's fundraising initiative for families doing it tough this festive season.

Many families with young children across Australia experience food insecurity (a lack of access to a sufficient supply of affordable and nutritious food).

According to the Foodbank Hunger Report 2018, over 4 million Australians have experienced uncertainty around where their next meal is coming from in the last 12 months. This is an in increase of 400,000 people since the 2017 report.  

Australians living in regional and remote areas are 33% more likely to have experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months than those living in cities. 

Sadly children represent 22% of all food insecure Australians. 

This year's "Bringing the heart of Australia together this Christmas" appeal aims to allow those families struggling to put food in their cupboards to enjoy some essential food items this Christmas, enabling them to bring their family together, celebrate and create new memories.

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Early learning nominated supervisors and early childhood educators, 

You are invited to take part in a research study which explores attitudes, knowledge and practices in addressing children’s speech, language and communication needs. 
 
You are eligible to participate in this survey if you are an early childhood educator, early childhood teacher or otherwise engaged in actively caring for and educating preschool-aged children in Australia.
 

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Oversupply is an increasing issue in Australia’s early learning sector.  With few barriers to entry for new or existing providers to set up new centres, the saturation of childcare centres in certain geographic areas has led to many services experiencing lower utilisation  or  being squeezed out of business. Planning data* predicts that there are currently over 1,000 new centres in the pipeline around the nation, which if completed could deliver another 90,000 childcare places in an already flooded market. 
 
If not addressed, oversupply will lead to increased costs for families and may impact on the quality of services in local communities.  However with the right policies in place, we can ensure a sustainable early learning sector that continues to provide families with affordable high quality early learning services, thus giving Australia’s youngest generation the best start in life.
 

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Thanks to feedback from our members about absent sessions for ongoing families during the transition period of the new Child Care Subsidy (CCS), ACA was able to raise this issue with the Department of Education and Training (DET) with a view to getting it resolved as soon as possible.
 
We are pleased to inform members that following the concerns raised by ACA and the sector, the Department has decided to manually process a significant number of sessions in which the CCS was not applied for an absent session.
 

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