The National Quality Standard will improve quality through.

• Improved staff to child ratios to ensure each child gets more individual care and attention.

• New staff qualification requirements to ensure staff have the skills to help children learn and develop.

• A new quality rating system to ensure Australian families have access to transparent information relating to the quality of early childhood education and care services.
  
  
• the establishment of a new National Body to ensure early childhood education and care is of a high quality.

The overall theme of Australian Child Care Week is "Bringing out the Quality". This coincides with the quality areas of the National Quality Standard.

The new National Quality Standard will help services to provide the best possible level of early childhood education and care by being clear about the factors that best support a child's development.

It also gives centres and families confidence in understanding what distinguishes high quality or excellent services.

The new National Quality Standard is divided into seven areas that contribute to the quality of early childhood education and care. These areas have been identified by research and seven will be the central themes for Australian Child Care Week.