Child Care
Childcare Decisionmaking Literature Review [http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/child_care_decision_making_literature_review_pdf_version_v2.pdf] This is only useful source for your exact topic so far! It focuses only on low-income families.
Expections of parents
Note that: https://aifs.gov.au/publications/parenting-partnerships-culturally-diverse-child-care-sett/conclusions-implications
“accommodating parents' preferences in Australian child care services is not always straightforward. For example, carers suggested that actually adopting parents' wishes may not be desirable or practical in all cases. Barriers such as lack of time, difficulties engaging parents and tensions between parents' wishes and child care legislation and accreditation guidelines were all highlighted as impediments to partnership practice.”
Impact of different cultures on expectations
https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/health-and-community/information-sheets/supporting-difference/cultural-differences/why-culture
https://aifs.gov.au/publications/child-care-cultural-context/use-and-expectations-child-care-among-different-cultural
https://aifs.gov.au/publications/child-care-cultural-context/aifs-child-care-cultural-context-study (link for methodology and sampling outline)
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood (look at contents through state library)
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/EYLFPLP_E-Newsletter_No7.pdf (Interestign questions at end)
Childcare Training Newsletter on different topics
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/e-newsletters/
Professional learning course in early childhood
https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/early-childhood/professional-learning
Yr 3 NAPLAN and home life
http://www.growingupinaustralia.gov.au/pubs/asr/2014/asr2014d.html
Family and Work
Family, and Work: The Family's Perspective [https://www.dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/families-and-children/publications-articles/family-and-work-the-familys-perspective?HTML] looks at the impact of parental time at work from lots of different perspectives. this is a summary of a larger report.
Emotional and Social Wellbeing of the child
Supporting babies' emotional and social wellbeing [http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/NQS_PLP_E-Newsletter_No61.pdf] and Health Safety and Wellbeing [http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/NQS_PLP_E-Newsletter_No29.pdf] have useful definitions and easy-to-read examples.
Connections: A resrouce for early childhood educators about children's wellbeing [http://www.himh.org.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/11258/CONNECTIONS-WEB-FINAL.pdf] and Developing Children's social and Emotional skills [https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/sites/default/files/public/KM%20Linking%20resources%20C2%20Book_web_final.pdf] is a course designed for childcare workers.
Childcare and the Wellbeing of Children [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17606830] outlines some of the negative and positive effects of childcare in the abstract.
Wellbeing [http://www.ncca.biz/Aistear/pdfs/PrinciplesThemes_ENG/WellBeing_ENG.pdf] list things adults can do to contribute to a child's emotional wellbeing
Chapter 6 [https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/Byrne%20and%20O'Toole_0.pdf] gives longitudianal data qbout the significance of childcare
Not one size fits all [http://www.childhoodinstitute.org.au/Assets/226/1/NotOneSizeFitsAllreportfinalNov2012.pdf] looks at Indigenous australian chidren's wellbeing
The Children,Youth and Families Act 2005 and The Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 [http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/590864/ecec_fact2_april_2006.pdf] show that the government has a differnt dfinitions of welllbeing, especially with regard to indigeous children.
The Australian government provides subsidies so that low SES parents can send their child to childcare. Unexpectedly, this seems to have had a negative effect [http://ftp.iza.org/dp5102.pdf] - read pp36-37. How valid is this research? Is this the effect of the subsioty or of other circunstabnces which create the neeed for subsidy?
This study measures cortisol (the hormone that causes stress) to compare the emotional wellbeing of children in home care or preschoool [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885200610000050]
Emotional and Social Wellbeing of the parent