Queensland Early Childhood Workforce Strategy 2025–28
The
Queensland Early Childhood Workforce Strategy sets the strategic direction for the early childhood workforce and focuses on growing and retaining a high-quality workforce, strengthening support systems, and modernising workforce approaches.
Our vision is one of a sustainable, qualified early childhood workforce who are recognised for their contribution to improving outcomes for children.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educators, children and families are a key focus of the Queensland Early Childhood Workforce Strategy, which aims to embed First Nations Early Childhood professionals' perspectives and outcomes across priority areas.
The strategy builds upon the Queensland Government's
Good people. Good jobs: Queensland Workforce Strategy 2022–2032, which provides a range of workforce related support for employers.
Learn about the
scholarships, subsidies and grants available to unlock your career in early childhood.
Early childhood recruitment campaign
The Early Childhood recruitment campaign—Shape the future promotes early childhood as a professional career with plenty of opportunities to grow and excel.
The statewide campaign aims to attract school leavers and career changers to the profession by promoting flexible pathways and rewarding teacher/educator and child interactions. The campaign also targets those already in the early childhood workforce, to use supports available to upskill and grow their own future in the profession.
The campaign features authentic teacher and educator talent from across the sector.
National Children's Education and Care Workforce Strategy
The
National Children's Education and Care Workforce Strategy (2022–31) supports the recruitment, retention, sustainability and quality of the sector workforce.
Facilitated by ACECQA, national sector stakeholders and all Australian governments have co-designed 'Shaping Our Future', a 10-year workforce strategy to help ensure a sustainable, high-quality children's education and care workforce.
The implementation and evaluation plan to support and guide efforts to achieve the objectives of the national workforce strategy—Shaping Our Future—supports and complements areas of action and commitments outlined in other national strategies, including those which support the Closing the Gap agreement such as the national
Early Childhood Care and Development Policy Partnership.
Information on the implementation of the Shaping Our Future is available on the strategy's
dashboard, which tracks progress against the 21 nationally agreed actions and includes information on additional complementary initiatives that are being undertaken.