There is growing understanding that care work — including jobs in aged care, disability services, early child education and care, and others — is of growing importance to future employment and wage trends. For too long, jobs in these growing sectors have been devalued. Government underfunding and weak labour and quality standards have reinforced the degradation of work in care sectors. With intense labour shortages and public concern about inadequate quality, there is now more widespread recognition that care jobs must be improved quickly: with more funding, better training, limits on private delivery, multi-employer bargaining, and more.