I chose to explore Early Childhood Austrailia which is the same as NAEYC here in the United States. Some current research topics that I found on this site were about how childcare funding must focus on children who are most in need and how the government must try to end child retention. Reading about how childcare funding should focus on children who are in most need Austrailia believes changes to the funding of childcare should focus on benefiting low and middle income families and on improving the wages and conditions of the people who work in these services according to Early Childhood Australia, the peak body representing children.
ECA has developed certain recommendations in relation to refugee children who are in retention and children of asylum seekers:
- Families with children and unaccompanied minors should be placed in the community while their claims are assessed.
- In the event that an application for refugee status is unsuccessful and families and unaccompanied minors cannot return to their home country, families and unaccompanied minors should continue to live in the community until such time as they can return home.
- Families should have access to the support they need to care for their children and participate in the community.
