The sector's workforce is also in line for extra support under the report's recommendations.
Low-income families should have access to free, fully subsidised childcare, according to a landmark report that details a pathway to give all children access to early education for at least three days a week.
Both subsidies should taper off by 1 per cent for every extra $5000 those families earn, and should be accompanied by scrapping the activity test, which links subsidy rates to how much parents work, study and volunteer. About 1.5 million children from a little over 1 million families were in Child Care Subsidy-approved childcare as of March, according to Department of Education data. That figure would rise if the subsidy changes are adopted."Attendance... is expected to rise by 10 per cent," due to those higher subsidies, the Productivity Commission said, mainly from low- and middle-income families.
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