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Managing the staffing of your Early Learning/OSHC service - March 2022

We are asking all Early Learning & OSHC services to please complete this survey on current staffing issues. With accurate and current data ACA can continue to work with relevant bodies to assist with any workforce concerns.
 
The survey should be completed by the owner/operator or Centre Director.  

ACA intends to use this data in the context of our submissions to and conversations with the Australian Government Ministers and Departments about how to best support services in relation to their workforce concerns. 
 
The survey itself should only take you about a few minutes to complete and does not require any personal information that reveals your identity.  

PLEASE NOTE: The Australian Childcare Alliance is obliged to comply with the Privacy Act 1988 in the collection and handling of personal information. All consequent reports will be aggregated and de-identified to ensure the privacy of all respondents.
 
1.What state/territory is your early learning service(s) located in?

If you have more than one centre over multiple states, please complete a separate survey for each state.(Required.)
2.Which of the following describes your service type?
(Please select all that apply)
3.Which of the following describes the nature of your service?
4.Please describe the physical location of your service?
5.During the last year (including right now), have you found it more difficult to meeting the requirements for Educator to child ratios (under regulation 123 for centre-based services)?(Required.)
6.What are the reasons for these difficulties? (Please select all that apply)(Required.)
7.Does your service hold a waiver for general education qualifications (under regulation 126 for centre-based services)?(Required.)
8.During the last year has your service found it a greater challenge than usual to meet the requirements around general educator qualifications (under regulation 126 for centre-based services — 50% of all educators to hold a, or be actively working towards, diploma level education and care qualification)?(Required.)
9.What are the challenges? (Please select all that apply)(Required.)
10.Does your service find it a challenge meeting the Regulations 130, 131, 132, 133, 134 – Requirement for early childhood teacher/s?(Required.)
11.What are the challenges? (Please select all that apply)(Required.)
12.Does your service hold a waiver for any of these regulations -  130, 131, 132, 133, 134 – Requirement for early childhood teacher/s?(Required.)
13.How do you meet the minimum staffing requirements as required by the Law and the Regulations when your service faces staffing shortages?(Required.)
14.If you have reduced the number of children in attendance, what were the reasons for this? (Please select all that apply)(Required.)
15.If you selected "long term" above, what percentage of your licenced capacity have you lost on average across any given week?
(No reply needed if not relevant to you)(Required.)
16.Is your service currently finding it a challenge to recruit staff?(Required.)
17.If yes, please tick all of the scenarios below that have applied to your recruitment issues.
18.What solutions would you like to see to address workforce issues across the whole ECEC sector?
19.At the service provider level, do you have any suggestions on how operators can address their workforce issues? (not mandatory)
Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences.

Your support will assist ACA in accurately describing the workforce situation to government stakeholders.