Nannies are over the moon about the prospect of taxpayer-funded subsidies for parents.
However, the Australian Nanny Association says while there needs to be suitable regulation and room for professional development within the industry, this should not necessarily involve the national quality framework.
"Adding more people into that system and the complexity and then costing, it's not realistic," vice-president Annemarie Sansom told AAP on Tuesday.
The Australian Childcare Alliance, representing long-day care centres, wants to see more than the "very scant detail" the government released on Tuesday.
President Gwynn Bridge said the initial two-year trial was a good and careful approach to the matter but there also needed to be clear regulations.
"We don't need to have it becoming an absolutely informal sector where anybody can just mind children overnight and in those hours when they can't attend formal care," she told AAP.
