National Child Care Accreditation
Referring to The 7 Quality Areas of child care (for long day care providers), through the NCAC (National Childcare Accreditation Council), will help to understand what part of your studies are aiming you to achieve when you have finished your certificate III.
The NCAC are the people who check that child care providers are offering quality care in accordance with the 7 quality areas, the 7 quality areas are broken up into 33 principles and these are accessible through www.ncac.gov.au.
There are 6 quality areas for family day care schemes, 8 quality areas for outside school hours care and as stated above, 7 quality areas for long day care providers.
You can check these areas out through the ncac website;