Provide the foundations for children's futures through quality early childhood and care services.
Our strategies
- Regulate early childhood education and care services to support safe and high-quality services.
- Support universal access to quality kindergarten in the year before school for all Queensland children.
- Support early interventions to enable families and children to participate in early childhood education and care.
- Work with Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the community-controlled sector to support culturally responsive early childhood services.
- Support early childhood education and care services to be inclusive and accessible for children with complex and additional needs.
- Support children to positively transition into, and through, early childhood education and school.
- Build the capacity and capability of the early childhood education and care sector to grow a skilled and culturally capable workforce.
This strategic plan reflects the Queensland Government’s objectives for the community:
Safety where you live
A plan for Queensland’s future
A better lifestyle through a stronger economy
Our measures
- Wellbeing and development prior to school
- Kindergarten participation
- Quality of early education and care services