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| Professor Fiona Stanley - Children key to the future
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 There is a whole lot more to the current debate about families and children in Australian society that people need to appreciate. It is more than just having a competent workforce for future prosperity and to support an increasing ageing population.
Of course, both of these are justification enough for providing the best environments we can for optimal early and continued development, health and wellbeing of children and young people. But what?s often missed in the economic debate, is the social impact on the whole community of how well we raise our children.
They?re not just our future workforce they?re our future leaders, our artists, our innovators, our cultural custodians. They?ll set the laws and decide what?s acceptable and what?s valuable ? in other words, they?ll shape the culture and society in which we live. It?s not just good workers that we want ? we need good thinkers, good carers, people who share our values ? good solid citizens and future parents.
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| Returning to work? What you'll need to know |
There are 101 things to consider, from your child care options through to keeping you and your family happy and managing non-family friendly employers. This article will help you figure out:
- What your child care options are
- Whether your employer has flexible work practices that accommodate your needs
- How to create and maintain a strong family culture while working
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| Vacancy Alert - New and improved version released |
Vacancy Alert has been a success from the outset through the very simple idea of quickly and easily connecting parents looking for child care up with child care centres with vacancies.
Child Care Vacancy Alert has now been improved and gives you access to an extended range of child care services, including Outside of School Hours Care, Pre-school and Family Day Care. We have also improved our suburb location options to help you search for and connect to child care services in your chosen area.
If you are currently a registered user of our Child Care Vacancy Alert system, login and update your details as it may be worth including additional location details and/or widening your child care search options by considering Family Day Care.
Remember Vacancy Alert is a fast and free way of finding child care near you, so if you have friends and family looking for child care make sure you tell them about our service.
To read what other parents have to say about Child Care Vacancy Alert click here.
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| Agency Profile - Specialist agencies providing unique services helping parents get back to work |
Our agency partners are always looking for new ways to help you and your children. In this issue, we profile two agencies making a unique contribution to our community and the families living in it.
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| Testimonials - parents share their child care experiences |
Our recent testimonials campaign, designed to give you an opportunity to tell us about your experiences with child care, has proved to be very popular and we have been overwhelmed by the hundreds of comments posted to the website.
All of us here at Careforkids.com.au would like to say a huge congratulations to Katrina Szakacs who shared her experiences with us and has won a gorgeous pamper pack and spa treatment for her efforts.
If you would like to share your child care experiences with other parents simply search for a child care service and click on ?post a testimonial?. It?s that easy and your comments will help other parents in their search for child care.
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Hello,
Welcome to the September edition of the Careforkids.com.au newsletter.
This issue focuses on providing you with the information you need to successfully return to employment while maintaining a healthy work life balance. When pondering the decision to return to work you may ask yourself whether this is even achievable. I often consider this question myself, as I know that juggling work, home and family commitments is an incredibly challenging task.
There are a large number of things you will need to think about before returning to work, however, you can do it and our first article will help you start the journey!
This issue also showcases our new and improved Child Care Vacancy Alert, which now includes Family Day Care and Outside School Hours care, and has additional regional and location options so you can select and search for care in the suburbs closest to you.
We are also proud to profile a number of specialist agencies which are working to help parents like you achieve a healthy work/life balance.
Plus a great article on families and children from Professor Fiona Stanley.
I hope you enjoy this edition?
Until next time,
Roxanne Elliott
Founder
CareforKids.com.au
roxanne@careforkids.com.au
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