Early childhood education is a good start in life -- but how to finance it?

Children who attend early childhood education and care have better performance in school and later in life. The Productivity Commission's draft report, recommends childcare of up to 30 hours should be available to all children aged up to five.

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The Productivity Commission's draft report discusses universal childcare for children up to the age of five.

The report recommends providing quality early childhood education and care up to 30 hours, or three days a week, increasing the Child Care Subsidy from 90 to 100 percent for families with incomes up to 80 thousand dollars.

This entails a cost of two and a half billion dollars a year.

It also proposes an independent Commission on Early Childhood Education and Care to monitor the government's progress towards universal childcare.

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