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What do you think of Child Care in Australia?
Have your say…

Of course we receive many notes from parents about child care issues, praise, gripes and otherwise.

We came across this article (from the UK's Guardian newspaper) that gives the opinion of several mums with children in child care about issues such as availability, cost, allocation of much needed places to non-working parents, working for a loss just to keep your career and sanity…

The UK is very similar to Australia in terms of the high cost of child care and scramble for too few places available; so much of the article will resonate with Australian parents as well.

Why not have your say too. Of course we do a regular Child Care and Workforce Participation Survey as well to get some real statistics to present to government and child care industry bodies, but now that we can take comments on our newsletter articles, we'd love to hear from you.

Are child care services adequate in your area?
Why do we still not have compulsory free nursery/preschool for all 3s and up?
Are you coping with the cost of child care – does it balance out for you?
What have been your experience of finding child care – particularly for the under twos?
What do you think the government could be doing to make it easier for working parents to get back to work and afford to be working?

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