期刊名称：International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
电子版ISSN：2288-6729
出版年度：2012
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：45-61
DOI：10.1007/2288-6729-6-1-45
出版社：Springer Singapore
摘要：Family child care, or family day care (FDC), as it is known in Australia, is an important early childhood education and care (ECEC) option, as it offers unique services compared with other ECEC services such as greater flexibility, wider children’s age range (0–12 years old) and differential operation procedures.In Australia, however, a new National Quality Framework (NQF) is in the process of being implemented in Australia.This will affect all ECEC services, including FDCs, through the application of National Quality Standards (NQS).How will FDCs respond to the major changes ensuing from introducing the NQF and NQS? We argue that there are several factors impacting on the quality of provision by FDCs over the longer term.These include workforce qualifications, carer-child interactions, systemic implementation processes and measures of quality.This paper will discuss the impact of NQF and NQS on FDC and will address issues where no specific quality improvement strategy is applied. Key words family day care national quality framework quality improvement.
关键词：family day care ;national quality framework ;quality improvement
