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Week 1: Regulatory Framework Early Childhood Education - Coggle Diagram
Week 1: Regulatory Framework Early Childhood
Education
Key definitions and distinctions between: Leadership and management
Leadership
Compliance: Following national laws and regulations to ensure child safety
Budgets & Resources: Manages financial effectiveness of business to promote its durability
Systems and Rosters: Implementing structured tool to maintain ratio and support staffs
Primary goal: To create consistency and stick with the current approach
Focus: Order, consistency, efficiency
Management
Motivation: Inspiring educators to achieve exceeding practice of the service
Professional influence: Creating high quality pedagogy and mentoring staff growth
Vision: Defining long term goal of the service
Primary goal: To create change and practice of ongoing improvement
Focus: Innovation, change, and people
The National Quality Agenda for Early Childhood Education and Care
Raise educator qualifications
Increase consistency across Australia
Improve accountability and transparency
Improve outcomes for children
Support continuous quality improvement
The National Quality Framework (NQF)
National Quality Standard (NQS)
It includes seven quality areas
Staffing arrangements
Relationship with children
physical Environments
Collaborative partnership with families
Children's health and safety
Governance and Leadership
Educational program and practice
Assessment and Rating System
Assessment and Rating Process
Assessment visit and evidence gathering
Draft assessment report
Notification of assessment
Final report and quali
Self-assessment and quality improvement
Rating published
National Law and National Regulations
National regulations: Provide detailed operational requirements to implement the law, explains how the service can meet those requirements, looks closely on day-to-day operations of the services, provide guidance on consistent implementation of the NQF
National laws: Sets legal framework for EC, states the responsibilities of service, Focuses on legal responsibilities, approvals, and compliance, and Establishes the NQF and regulatory system