webinar series: working through the NSW and Victorian early education reforms
dandolo and Gowrie Victoria and NSW launched three policy papers on “the greatest reform to early education in a generation”.
We invite you to view a series of webinars exploring the implications and opportunities to NSW and Victoria’s landmark reforms to preschool / kindergarten.
We unpack the questions, the challenges, reflect on some of the excitement about the reform, and identify some of the opportunities before us. We hope the series:
Supports productive conversations within the sector about what’s possible and what’s necessary
Contributes to emerging thinking for all governments as they work through design and delivery
Raises some ideas that we think should be part of the ongoing conversation.
Joined by a stellar line-up of panellists, we explored:
Balancing growth with quality and equity
Designing for equity in a universal system and sustaining and growing quality while scaling up
Significant and rapid growth in demand and provision could force trade-offs with quality and equity – but this is a risk, not an inevitability. It’s possible to drive growth in a way that strengthens the foundations that support and enable both quality and equity
Joined by Nicole Pilsworth (Gowrie Victoria), Hannah Barber (Paul Ramsay Foundation) and Anne Kennedy (early childhood consultant), and facilitated by Stacey Fox and Joe Connell (dandolo).
Navigating the constraints on growth - workforce and infrastructure
Attracting and sustaining the workforce and growing the footprint of the sector
The success of the reforms will be influenced by many factors, but the two hard constraints on growth are people and bricks and mortar – and there are barriers to work through for both the workforce and infrastructure.
Joined by Susan Anderson (Gowrie Victoria), Sandra Cheeseman (C&K) and Ian Sanders (Colliers), and facilitated by Stacey Fox and Joe Connell (dandolo).
Implications for the size and shape of the sector
Unpacking the implications of growth and change for different parts of the sector
The reforms represent a step-change in the delivery of early education and will inevitably lead to changes in the shape, size and structure of the sector. But the nature of that change is hard to predict.
Joined by Nicole Jones (Gowrie NSW), Leslie Loble (University of Technology, Sydney) and Corin Moffit (Accenture), and facilitated by Stacey Fox and Joe Connell (dandolo).
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