Quality early childhood education program

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Preschool program
METEOR identifier:	606533
Registration status:	Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015
Definition:	A quality early childhood education program is an early childhood education program which is delivered in the year before full-time schooling by a qualified early childhood teacher, in accordance with the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standard.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
Steward:	Early Childhood Data Sub Group (ECDSG)
Reference documents:	National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education—2015
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2015 Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2018 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2019 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2020 Early Childhood, Superseded 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2020 Early Childhood, Superseded 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2021 Early Childhood, Standard 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care DSS 2021 Early Childhood, Standard 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2015 Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Aggregate NMDS 2018 Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2015 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2016 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2017 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2018 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2019 Early Childhood, Superseded 02/12/2020 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2020 Early Childhood, Superseded 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2020 Early Childhood, Superseded 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2021 Early Childhood, Standard 25/10/2021 Early Childhood Education and Care: Unit Record Level NMDS 2021 Early Childhood, Standard 25/10/2021 Early childhood education program Early Childhood, Standard 01/06/2015