Since February 2017, the Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) NSW has been advocating to legislators and policymakers that the current experience of childcare oversupply is real and growing. Independently, other peak industry bodies are confirming all across Australia that when childcare oversupply occurs, it puts upward pressure on childcare fees and therefore decreasing affordability for families while at the same time puts at risk the quality of educational standards for children.

Legislators and policymakers in NSW and across Australia believe, wrongly, that by approving more childcare services, that will address demand and at the same time help to reduce childcare fees. So far, the opposite is true. It is putting at risk the very viability of existing childcare services, and childcare fees are not going down, and soon we will start seeing the real consequences of the declining quality of childcare.

ACA NSW President Lyn Connolly provides an update on the efforts thus far, and the ongoing need for more data to show to legislators and policymakers of their flawed direction of the future of supply of childcare.

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