February 2010 National Survey of Child Care Services
A chance to have your say on early childhood educators’ professional development needs and preferences.
At the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations we want to find out more about early childhood educators’ experience of professional development and inclusion support provided through the Inclusion and Professional Support Program (IPSP), and educators’ needs and preferences. We also want to know what support early childhood educators require to provide quality, inclusive child care for all children. For this reason the Department has engaged the consultancy firm, KPMG, to conduct a survey of all child care services nationally.
KPMG will conduct the survey online. A survey link will be sent to all child care service managers via the Child Care Management System (CCMS) email alert function in mid February 2010. It will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. For child care services that are not registered with CCMS a hard-copy survey and return addressed envelope will be provided in the mail. Hard-copy surveys can be requested by calling Claudia Zines on 02 6240 7291.
In responding to the survey, Child Care Service Managers will be asked a series of questions to indicate what types of professional development their staff currently accesses and indicate whether they are satisfied with these services. They will also be asked to provide suggestions on what other services they would like to access to assist them provide quality child care.
Information collected from this survey will help inform the management and development of Australian Government programs that provide professional development and inclusion support to early childhood educators.
KPMG shall manage the survey to ensure the confidentiality of your responses and provide only de-identified survey results to DEEWR.
Please keep an eye out for this survey link in mid February 2010.

Communicare Inclusion Support Agency encourages all services to participate in this survey for the benefit of the Inclusion Support Program and the children participating in services accross Australia. Communicare Inclusion Support Facilitators will be discussing this survey with Directors / Co-ordinators when visiting services encouraging participation.