Thrive by Five welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment to fund a substantial wage increase for early childhood educators and looks forward to the abolition of the Activity Test to improve early learning access and affordability. Increasing educator wages is an extremely positive step and will help address challenges with workforce shortages in the sector and ultimately benefit Australia’s children and families.

Families with young children are among the big winners from tonight’s budget 🧵 #Budget2022 Progress toward better outcomes for Australian children and families has begun with the budget delivering an increase to the child care subsidy and a phased increase in paid parental leave, providing six months per couple and assessing combined incomes to test eligibility.