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2013

• 21/05/13 - MyChild at the Pregnancy, Babies and Children’s Expo in Sydney
• 10/05/13 - Family News from the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
• 3/05/13 - Celebrating the National Family Day Care Week 6-12 May 2013
• 2/05/13 - Child Care Flexibility Fund – Applications Open Now!
• 1/05/13 - Australian families can now see how child care services are performing against the National Quality Standard
• 28/03/13 - Release of report on validity of assessment and rating process
• 22/03/13 - Family News from the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
• 21/03/13 - National Playgroup Week 18-24 March 2013
• 21/03/13 - MyChild at the Pregnancy, Babies and Children's Expo
• 19/03/13 - $300 million boost to support quality early childhood education
• 18/03/13 - Child Care Flexibility Fund
• 17/03/13 - Child Care Flexibility Trials
• 28/02/13 - Updates on eligibility for A Better Start for Children with Disability initiative
• 22/01/13 - National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education: Evaluation Annual Progress Report 2011
• 07/01/13 - The National Quality Framework (NQF) celebrates the 1 year anniversary

2012

• 18/12/12 - Family News from the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
• 14/12/12 - New app makes family payments easier
• 02/11/12 - Family News from the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority
• 18/10/12 - National Children's Week 20 - 28 October 2012
• 27/09/12 - Do you know that Child Care Rebate is not means tested?
• 17/09/12 - National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education 2011 annual reports released
• 10/09/12 - Professional Educators providing Quality Child Care for your children
• 18/07/12 - Reviewing child care in regional and remote areas
• 29/06/12 - Healthy Start for School
• 15/06/12 - Increase to Child Care Benefit from July 2012
• 14/05/12 - National Families Week 2012
• 02/05/12 - Learning more about Australia’s children
• 17/04/12 - Time to Develop your Quality Improvement Plan
• 20/02/12 - Application extension for Occasional Care and In Home Care places
• 31/01/12 - Launch of 'On my first day'
• 30/01/12 - Allocation of Occasional Care and In Home Care places
• 20/01/12 - Child Care News Issue 27 - January 2012
• 10/01/12 - Latest edition of Child Care Update - January 2012

2011

• 20/12/11 - A great start in life for Australian kids
• 30/11/11 - Get your Rebate
• 22/11/11 - Positive evaluation of early childhood enrichment program
• 02/11/11 - Allocation of IHC and OCC places
• 30/09/11 - Update on the National Quality Framework
• 26/09/11 - Child Care News Issue 26 - September 2011
• 25/08/11 - Grants for Child Care Centres announced
• 15/08/11 - NP ECE Evaluation Annual Progress Report 2010
• 01/07/11 - A Better Start for Children with Disability
• 29/06/11 - National Workforce Census
• 29/06/11 - Fortnightly Child Care Rebate payment option
• 15/06/11 - In the 2011-12 Budget the Australian Government announced $9.2 million for a Recognition of Prior Learning package for early childhood professionals.
• 02/06/11 - Have you considered a career in early childhood?
• 02/06/11 - Child Care Assistance Campaign
• 02/06/11 - Additional support for teenage parents with their child care costs
• 01/06/11 - Supporting healthy and resilient children
• 11/05/11 - National Families Week
• 09/05/11 - First Children and Family Centre Opens
• 06/05/11 - Register for NQF Updates!
• 29/04/11 - Schedule 8 Now Released
• 19/04/11 - Australian Early Development Index data released
• 15/04/11 - Paid Parental Scheme Parents Webcast.
• 22/03/11 - New Aboriginal Children and Family Centres for SA.
• 21/02/11 - Playing for Life.
• 18/02/11 - Australian families are missing out on child care assistance.
• 07/02/11 - Cyclone Yasi in North Queensland-child care service closures and local emergency provisions.
• 20/01/11 - New changes to the mychild website broadens the search for child care
• 13/01/11 - More info for Services on Business Continuity Payments
• 12/01/11 - Services in local emergency
• 10/01/11 - Sites with info on QLD Floods
• 06/01/11 - Queensland flooding and local emergency arrangements
• 06/01/11 - NQF Info Forums Framework
• 05/01/11 - Paid Parental Leave started 1 January

2010

• 22/12/10 - Fortnightly Child Care Rebate payment option
• 22/12/10 - Recent enhancements to the mychild website now make it easier for families to locate suitable child care.
• 06/12/10 - Flood Warnings Declared
• 29/11/10 - Announcement of successful organisations to deliver the Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) in 15 new locations in 2011.
• 22/11/10 - Victorian Kindergarten Info
• 22/11/10 - Information for families
• 10/11/10 - National Workforce Census data collection complete
• 09/11/10 - Information forums on the NQF
• 05/11/10 - New look mychild.gov.au
• 05/11/10 - Child Care Provider Portal
• 05/11/10 - New vacancy information on mychild.gov.au
• 05/11/10 - Information for child care service providers on mychild.gov.au
• 26/10/10 - Children's Week 2010
• 19/10/10 - HTML version of the 2010-11 Child Care Services Handbook
• 16/09/10 - Child Care Service Handbook 2010-11
• 20/07/10 - Caretaker Period
• 06/07/10 - Have you considered a career in early childhood?
• 05/07/10 - Increase to Child Care Benefit from 1 July
• 24/06/10 - Helping parents balance work and family choices
• 16/06/10 - June CCMS Changes
• 09/06/10 - Child Care Rebate 2010-2011 quarterly payments timeline now available
• 07/06/10 - Support for 190 Long Day Care Services
• 03/06/10 - Family Day Care funding boost
• 30/05/10 - ABC Learning Centres Update
• 26/05/10 - Child Care Benefit Overadvances
• 18/05/10 - Community Profiles released for the Australian Early Development Index
• 15/05/10 - National Families Week - 15 to 21 May 2010
• 07/05/10 - National Information Agreement on Early Childhood and Care
• 03/05/10 - Changes to the operation of child care services
• 27/04/10 - Seasonal Flu Vaccine and young children
• 22/04/10 - Yamanto Early Learning and Care Centre opens
• 22/04/10 - More child care information available for families
• 07/04/10 - ABC Learning Centres Update
• 24/03/10 - Natural Disaster declared in Perth WA - child care service closures
• 17/03/10 - Child care organisations win National Work-Life Balance Awards
• 15/03/10 - Transition arrangements for National Quality Framework
• 12/02/10 - Bushfire related child care service closures

2009

• 17/12/09 - Pandemic Flu Vaccine Approved for Children
• 09/12/09 - Decision on ABC1 centres
• 07/12/09 - New improvements to early childhood education and care
• 26/11/09 - Improvements to mychild.gov.au
• 29/10/09 - Health Guidelines for Early Childhood Settings