LongReach Family Day Care Point Cook

Services to young children and their families have a longer history in European and Asian countries than in the Australian where day-care centres are generally private and of varying quality. In many countries, day-care facilities are associated with the mother's place of work. Infant care and preschool programs are a normal provision in many developed countries, and in some countries, such as France and Italy, they are included in the regular public-school system. However, the Australian has developed no societal consensus about the appropriateness of day care, and the resulting unevenness of standards of care is cause for concern. Both the importance and the availability of day care increased in the 20th century owing to the rising proportion of women in the workforce.