The National Quality Framework (11993.1)

The National Quality Framework is Australia's regulatory system for ensuring high-quality, accessible early childhood learning and care of all Australia's children. Under its umbrella sit: the National Laws and Regulations; the National Quality Standard; learning frameworks for prior to school and out of school care; qualifications for staff; assessment and ratings; and requirements for educator to child ratios.

In this unit, students will learn about the professional and legal regulations that are pivotal to the operation of all early learning and care environments in Australia. They will see how these regulations are applied to early childhood contexts and how to create and implement a quality improvement plan.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Critically reflect on all components of the National Quality Framework and apply them to a variety of early childhood contexts;
2. Describe the seven Quality Areas of the National Quality Standard and apply them to early childhood contexts; and
3. Assess an early childhood venue and create a Quality Improvement Plan for it.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways

Prerequisites

Must be enrolled in EDB001 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five) OR 326JA Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Education.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

10172 Regulatory Frameworks in Early Childhood Education

Assumed knowledge

None.