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ABC Learning investigated by ASIC Smart Company - Patrick Stafford - September 5, 2008 Troubled childcare group ABC Learning Centres is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for possible breaches...
Eddy Groves’s embarrassing audit mess: Kohler Smart Company - Alan Kohler - September 4, 2008 With ABC's share price having collapsed from $5 to 54 cents this year, and questions being raised about the company's solvency, Long's decision was the last thing Eddy needed...
Territory care system has 'serious flaws' The Australian - Stuart Rintoul - September 4, 2008 ONE year after the intervention, the Northern Territory still has the least responsive child care system in the nation despite widespread and entrenched...
Expert backs parental, professional care The West Australian - September 3, 2008 Keeping children out of care could compromise educational development as school curriculum is designed for youngsters with prior knowledge, an academic says...
Parents can't care more Courier Mail - Karen Brooks - September 03, 2008 The reasons for care are as diverse as the children and facilities themselves, and we may not all agree with them, but wouldn't it be nicer if we erred on the side of lending support...
Pay mums for two years to stay at home The Australian - Sue Dunlevy - September 03, 2008 MOTHERS should be paid to stay at home with their child for the first two years or their baby's brain won't develop properly...
Fed up with the daily dishes of mum guilt Daily Telegraph - Naomi Toy - September 03, 2008 Raise the issue of childcare and those guilt bombs will start flying thick and fast landing at the feet of mothers - working or otherwise. And sadly many of those lobbing them are other women...
ABC Learning axe to fall on part-time workers The Australian - Michael Sainsbury - September 3, 2008 STRUGGLING childcare group ABC Learning is planning to slash its part-time workforce by 1000 or more in an effort to save up to $26 million each year and...
ABC sells $190m slice to stay afloat The Age - Colin Kruger - September 3, 2008 But even if the company isn't forced into further sales, there are doubts about the viability of its Australian child-care business and whether the company...
Govt to boost childcare workforce The West Australian - 2nd September 2008 Parliamentary Secretary for Child Care Maxine McKew says a number of measures are under consideration, including increasing the number of workers...
P-plates for child centres Sydney Morning Herald - Phillip Hudson - September 2, 2008 ALL new child-care centres would be put on "P-plates" for up to two years and the number of babies looked after by any one carer may be reduced from five to...
ABC Learning loss news to ex-auditors NEWS.com.au - Anthony Marx - September 02, 2008 THE former auditors of beleaguered ABC Learning Centres distanced themselves yesterday from any responsibility for delayed full-year results expected to show...
Fat police for tubby tots Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - September 2, 2008 The blueprint, which is designed to provide more integrated services to parents of children from birth to eight years, is also expected to boost childcare...
Parents deserve right to choose children's care ABC Online - Eva Cox - September 2, 2008 "A Federal Government census of childcare services released this year found 757 children were attending long daycare services for at least 60 hours a week...
Government sets pre-school learning targets The Guardian (UK) - Sarah Morrison - September 1, 2008 Under-fives who play in the sandpit and recite nursery rhymes are to be assessed under a new government-enforced national curriculum that comes into force today...
McKew attacks childcare staff ratio The Australian - Samantha Maiden - September 01, 2008 KEVIN Rudd's handpicked adviser on childcare has attacked the current ratio of one carer to five babies as "not good enough" and warned the Government may...
Childcare changes put families under stress Courier Mail - Melanie Christiansen - September 01, 2008 SOME Brisbane parents have withdrawn their children from child care because of a Federal Government-imposed hike in up-front costs. Childcare Queensland has warned...
Fees to rise in shake-up of childcare The Sunday Times (UK) - Robert Watts - August 31, 2008 Families will be hit by increased childcare costs under government plans to “professionalise” nursery staff. In an attempt to give children from poor...
Mem Fox slammed for childcare comments The Australian - August 31, 2008 LEADING children's author Mem Fox has drawn criticism from working mothers but qualified support from family groups for likening childcare for very young...
Mem Fox blasts full time child care for babies Melbourne Herald Sun - Elissa Lawrence - August 31, 2008 PUTTING babies into child care is a form of child abuse, children's author Mem Fox has claimed. Ms Fox, author of Possum Magic, said she believed that...
Job-shedding ABC Learning faces huge write-down The Australian - Michael Sainsbury - August 30, 2008 The company has also started a round of new part-time staff cutbacks amid fears the group may be forced into hundreds of millions of dollars in write-downs...
ABC Learning Centres draws a line in sandpit Melbourne Herald Sun - Anthony Marx - August 30, 2008 A DEFIANT Eddy Groves yesterday hosed down speculation that his stricken ABC Learning Centres would collapse or that he would step down as chief executive...
ABC Learning Centres will survive: Eddy Groves The Australian - Susan Murdoch - August 29, 2008 EDDY Groves, the CEO of embattled ABC Learning Centres, said today he's "very confident" the child care operator would survive. Shares in ABC Learning...
ABC Learning won''t release results today The Australian - August 29, 2008 The child care provider confirmed it would not comply with securities exchange listing rules requiring it to release its results by a certain deadline...
Fears grow of ABC Learning collapse NEWS.com.au - Anthony Marx - August 29, 2008 SPECULATION continues to grow that childcare chain ABC Learning is poised to collapse, but parents have been urged not to panic...
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