TEMPERATURE CHECK: Your thoughts on attracting & retaining staff

Background
The Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) has been invited to make a submission to the Australian Government's Employment White Paper, which aims to build on the outcomes of the Jobs and Skills Summit and provide a roadmap for Australia to build a bigger, better-trained workforce.

As part of our submission, we invite you to share your thoughts and experiences via the quick survey below, so that ACA can accurately represent the views of our members.

If you have more than one service and some are in metro areas and others in regional areas, we encourage you to do the survey twice - once for your metro services and once for your regional services. If you would like each of your services to be represented in the survey, then please repeat the survey for each service.

Please note: Some of the questions below talk to a possible wage increase for early childhood educators. Please rest assured that ACA recognises that any wage increases without government funding would immediately impact affordability for families. ACA's position on wage increases is that the Federal Government must provide the funding, to ensure costs for families do not escalate as a result.

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* 1. What state is your service(s) based in?

Victoria

New South Wales

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Western Australia

Australian Capital Territory

Northern Territory

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* 2. What postcode(s) is your service(s) based in?

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* 3. Where is your service(s) based in terms of metro vs regional/remote?

Metropolitan area (i.e. major city & outer suburbs)

Regional/remote area (i.e. country town or remote area)

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* 4. Overall how confident are you about being able to successfully recruit and maintain adequate numbers of staff at your service?

Very confident

Somewhat confident

Neutral

Not very confident

Not at all confident

Comments (not mandatory)

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* 5. What do you think the biggest issue facing our sector is? (please tick ONLY ONE answer)

Workforce shortages

Affordability for families

Activity test (accessibility)

Oversupply of services

Government-funded service providers being built on school sites

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Please rank the following items in terms of importance from 1 to 5 (with 1 being most important & 5 being least important), in relation to the attraction & retention of staff:

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* 7. Do you think an increase in wages would improve the attraction & retention of your staff?

Yes