Key Influences On The Quality Improvement Accreditation System And The Current National Quality Framework

There are many legislations and guidelines affecting safeguarding of children and young people. The Children Act 1989, assigns duties to local authorities, courts, parents and other agencies to ensure children are safeguarded, their welfare promoted and for children to be consulted in decisions affecting them. The Children's Act 2004 made amendments to the act of 1989 after the failings regarding Victoria Climbe. It places duty on local authorities to work together and share information introducing local Safeguarding Boards to work collaboratively to safeguard children and young people. This includes the five outcomes of Every Child Matters 2003. The Childcare Act 0f 2006 introduced plans for children aged 0-5 to

Early childhood education in Australia encompasses prior to school settings as well as the early years of

Chapter two discusses various theorists that helped to mold and shape early childhood education to where it is today. There are several different theorists that contributed to the development of early childhood education. Some of these theorists include Alfred Adler, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, and John Dewey. Each theorist developed a unique theory that has caused early childhood guidance and education to flourish like it has today. Without learning and building on these theories, early childhood guidance and education would never develop or change. The chapter explains how some theories may seem strange to the contemporary families, but these theories are the foundation of how early childhood education got to where it is today. The book goes

The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has

This Act which is born from parent’s needs has a specific impact on childcarer's practice, but not only, as course handout 1a (2012, p2) confirms This Act is ‘for all those who are responsible for planning, running and using early childhood services’.

The ‘Children’s Act 2004’ was continuously updated and developed into the ‘Children’s Act 2006’. This act states that all settings have to follow the Early Years Framework Stages (which were renewed in 2012). The Early Years Framework Stages (EYFS) is aimed to fulfil the five aims of ‘every child matters’ and the previous children’s act of 2004. The intentions are to achieve these aims by setting standards, promote equal opportunities and through a framework of partnerships, improve quality and consistency and lay secure foundation for all learning and development, present and future. By improving the quality the service and experiences are improved for all children and families. Safeguarding children is a vital part of improving all childcare services/settings.

This framework came about as a result of the increase in child maltreatment and neglect report in 2007-08. This report triggered the Rudd Government to propose this National Framework in 2008. The purpose of this was to provide early intervention programs, improved information-sharing between the territories and states, and better support for children in care and their relatives and it was inaugurated in 2009 by the Council of Australian Government (COAG). The National Framework for protecting Australia’s Children gives

According to Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, and O’Grady (2016), the accreditation process is a voluntary process an organization participates in to demonstrate the standards established by the profession. Consequently, accreditation is complex as health care providers and organizations must follow trends and issues about health policy and standards of care (Mason et al., 2016). For many providers and organization, the benefits of obtaining accreditation often outweigh the costs (Klein & Grace, 2009).

Explore Australian government policies, initiatives and legislative requirements and analyse how these documents influence curriculum, promote quality care and support the achievement of high quality outcomes for young children in Early Learning contexts.

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Early childhood education has many benefits and there is the potential for many significant outcomes if universal preschools were put into place. Some feel that children who start kindergarten without previously attended preschool sometimes lack certain skills such as social and communication skills and an inability to follow routines. There were also studies done that found attending preschool could help to close the achievement gap in the grade school years. A child’s first few years of life are most important, and they absorb the most during those years. By providing universal preschool, all children would be benefiting, especially those who are in at-risk families or part of the lower class. As a society, we have a responsibility to help the children in our communities and provide them with the education they need in order to help them succeed in life.

The Children’s Act 2004 – provides the legal basis for how social service and other agencies deal with issues relating to children. It arose from the Green Paper “Every Child Matters” and identifies the following outcomes for all children:

The practice of Baby Farming developed a terrible reputation during 1895 because of cases on the murdering of babies in the care of those who ran those services. There were social and economic factors that didn’t give women a choice but to use baby farming. Women working to support their families got overpowered by the idealistic middle class view of stay at home mothers. Funds were raised to establish Early Crèches in the 1870’s to help working mothers however, it was unpopular in society because it supported mothers working outside the home thus the service failed due to its unacceptance. In 1889, the Kindergarten Association was created in Dunedin, it was an intervention to save children at risk. Educationalist Friedrich Froebel was the inspiration behind the establishment of the Kindergartens. The opening of this association slowly showed change in early childhood services, the idea of education for the young started drifting away from ‘taming the wild’ and more towards social reform, education for the young and saving working class children. At this stage in the history of New Zealand early childhood education, all care and education services were still heavily depended on funding from civil society rather than the state. It was not until after the Second World War that government funding

The concept of quality improvement in hospitals has evolved over time. Notably, one of the key areas of quality improvement is patient care. In the 18th Century, an almshouse was a facility in United States that provided health care services. The conditions of these facilities were deplorable, overcrowding was common and no respectable person wanted to be treated there (The Joint Commission, 2008). Unfortunately, patients that were treated at an almshouse had very little options available to them. By 1752, Benjamin Franklin had taken steps towards establishing Pennsylvania Hospital. Pennsylvania Hospital was meant to provide poor patients with quality care.

Quality assessment in healthcare is a process whereby a predetermined measure of quality, such as access to care or treatment guideline adherence, is quantified or measured. Quality assessment is one part of a quality improvement (or quality