Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

These are not just policy reforms we are pursuing; we are making sure the administration around them is also simpler with a new IT system and support that will reduce regulatory burden on services. It will make it simpler for parents at drop-off and pick-up times and in their engagement with the childcare system. As well, it will remove a range of red-tape measures around services so that they can be more flexible in the hours and the days they open, which is particularly important to services in rural and regional Australia that offer different hours to suit what the market can sustain in those communities and the support that they need. Our new IT system will mean that early educators and care workers will get to spend more time with children and less time on paperwork. They will actually be more focused on the things that matter and the IT system will ensure far greater compliance and guarantee that taxpayer dollars are going where they are needed and where they ought to go.