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Workforce Action Plan Initiatives

To help meet the demand for more skilled workers in the early childhood education and care sector, on 7 July 2011 the Queensland Government released the Early Childhood Education and Care Workforce Action Plan 2011-2014 which represents an investment of approximately $76 million to provide a range of initiatives to assist in the attraction and retention of high calibre staff for the sector.

This investment includes continuing the substantial funding allocation of over $20 million per annum for early childhood vocational education and training, as well as offering targeted assistance to the sector in finding the right people and upskilling its existing workforce through a range of new initiatives.

These initiatives have been tailored to meet the significant challenges of the state and national reforms, particularly increasing the number of early childhood teachers and upskilling the existing educator workforce to meet the new national qualification standards to be enforced from 2014. These initiatives have been broken into two categories:

For individual's seeking a career in the ECEC workforce - Join the Workforce.
For existing workers seeking to upgrade their skills - Assistance for existing workers.

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This page was last reviewed on 12 Oct 2011