The Early Years Learning Framework is part of the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) reform agenda for early childhood education and care and is a key component of the Australian Government’s National Quality Framework for early childhood education and care. It underpins universal access to early childhood education and will be incorporated in the National Quality Standard in order to ensure delivery of nationally consistent and quality early childhood education across sectors and jurisdictions.
The EYLF is aimed to provide quality early childhood education for children from birth to 5 years old, it recogises that play is a very important for children's learning to understand the world around them. For information about the ELFY for families click here.
The Early Years Framework
