On 17 October 2022 FDCA made a submission to the Senate inquiry into the Family Assistance Legislation (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022. In addition to responding to the overall intent and specific points in the draft legislation, we took the opportunity to again highlight the key issues affecting affordability of family day care for parents and viability of the sector as a whole.
You can read our main submission here, which was supplemented by Attachment 1 and an Addendum to our original submission.