New Publications

A few publications have recently been published which may be of some interest...

Childcare Regulation 
An interesting article published on The Mandarin website recently by Sarah Pilcher and Dr Stacey Fox (policy fellows at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University) concerned the importance of appropriate regulation of the childcare sector, particularly in light of the experience of VET regulation.

New fact sheets have been published by ACECQA on its website in relation to family day care. They are entitled: 

• Family day care educator compliance responsibilities under the National Law and National Regulations
• Approved provider compliance responsibilities under the National Law and National Regulations
• Nominated supervisor compliance responsibilities under the National Law and National Regulations
• Assessments of family day care residences and venues
• Record keeping in family day care services 

Children and the Law 

A new book is by Lisa Young, Marry Anne Kenny & Geoffrey Monahan (eds.), Children and the Law, 2nd edition, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood 2017. This is a comprehensive book covering a wide range of topics, including children's rights, child maltreatment, criminal responsibility of children, child protection, family law, adoption, civil liability, and child witnesses. Of particular interest is the chapter entitled "Education of Children - Preschool to Secondary Education" which gives an overview of the law that applies to childcare and schools.  Check the book comparison site Booko for availability and price.

Regulation

Another new book is Peter Drahos (ed.), Regulatory Theory, Foundations and Applications, ANU Press, Canberra 2017. If you have a general interest in regulatory theory then this is an excellent book because it includes contributions from Australia's and the world's leading regulatory academics and it's free (or at least the electronic download is). Some of the topics covered include: foundations of regulation, theories of regulation, compliance, rule of law, risk, accountability, globalisation and regulatory capitalism. It also covers some specific areas of regulation including the environment, crime, health, human rights, investment, migration and tax - but unfortunately not childcare!. Further information is available from ANU Press.

A recent interesting paper is by Neil Gunningham called Compliance, Enforcement and Regulatory Excellence. This is a research paper put out by the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University (who published the above book too). It discusses the most effective and efficient intervention strategies used for compliance and enforcement. The paper was also published in C. Coglianese (ed.), Achieving Regulatory Excellence, Brookings Institution Press, 2016.


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