Journal article
Variations in the Availability and Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care by Socioeconomic Status of Neighborhoods
Dan Cloney, Gordon Cleveland, John Hattie, Collette Tayler
EARLY EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2016
Abstract
Abstract: Research Findings: This article provides Australian evidence of the availability and quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in low–socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods. There is less availability of ECEC in low-SES areas in Australia, and these programs provide a lower average quality of care than in more advantaged neighborhoods. Families tend to travel short distances to ECEC programs (Mdn = 2.9 km), and therefore families in low-SES areas are limited in the programs they can choose or are faced with higher transport costs than families in more advantaged neighborhoods. This study uses government licensing data from a population of 6,937 ECEC services t..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council Linkage Projects Scheme
Funding Acknowledgements
E4Kids is a project of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne and is conducted in partnership with Queensland University of Technology. E4Kids is funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects Scheme (Grant LP0990200), the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, and the Queensland Government Department of Education and Training. E4Kids is conducted with academic collaboration with the University of Toronto at Scarborough; the Institute of Education; The University of London; and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.