Child Care News
Charter Hall fund diversifies childcare centre portfolio
The Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT has stepped up plans to diversify its focus on childcare centres, by bringing a broader array of social infrastructure properties into its portfolio. Led by fund manager Travis Butcher, the property trust is already making progress on that strategy ...
Alan Tudge says child care costs less than $5 an hour. Is the new education minister gaslighting parents?
Women's Agenda - Georgie Dent - February 10, 2021he last month has delivered a whack of sobering new data for anyone in Australia who is currently paying for early childhood education and care, about to start paying for ECEC or is remotely interested in child development, gender equality or equity. The latest CPI figures showed that fees...
Grandparents help to raise grandchildren in many families, but coronavirus is changing that
ABC News - Emily Bourke - February 10, 2021They say it takes a village to raise a child — and that's particularly the case for migrant families in Australia who frequently rely on grandparents for childcare. Borders closures prompted by COVID-19 are preventing many grandparents who live overseas from flying in to help raise children ...
Affinity Education fields approaches from prospective buyers
The Australian Business Review - Bridget Carter - February 9, 2021Childcare operator Affinity Education is understood to have fielded acquisition proposals from industry rivals in recent weeks, fuelling speculation that its private equity owners may soon place the business back up for sale. Affinity was on the market in 2018, but the sale was suspended ...
Discovery Childcare and Education: Croydon preschool children and staff evacuated after fire
Herald Sun - Kiel Egging, Maroondah Leader - February 9, 2021Two police officers have been praised for rushing in to rescue children and staff as a fire engulfed a childcare centre in Croydon. More than 100 people were evacuated — including 81 children and 21 staff — from Discovery Childcare and Education on Maroondah Highway at 8.50am...
Parents report decline in children's physical wellbeing, increase in screen time amid COVID-19, according to national survey
ABC Radio Brisbane - Antonia O'Flaherty - February 9, 2021Decreased physical wellbeing, increased screen time and feeling disconnected are the most significant impacts of COVID-19 on primary school-aged children, according to a survey. National outside-of-school-hours (OOSH) care provider Camp Australia surveyed 1,137 parents and 124 principals ...
Captains Flat Community Preschool closes over playground lead levels
The Canberra Times - Julia Kanapathippillai - February 9, 2021Captains Flat Community Preschool has been closed for deep cleaning after elevated levels of lead were found in parts of the playground. It was discovered during NSW government testing for heavy metals around the nearby former Lake George Mine. In a statement, the preschool announced ...
Number of children in hospital with rotavirus plunges thanks to vaccine
The Advertiser - Brad Crouch - February 9, 2021Public hospital admissions for young children suffering from the potentially fatal rotavirus infection have plunged by more than 85 per cent since the free vaccine was introduced in 2007. SA Health figures show admissions for sick children aged 0-5 years fell from a record 424 in 2006-07 ...
Children clean up mess after ransacking childcare centre in the Barkly region
Herald Sun - Jasmine Burke, NT News - February 8, 2021A group of children have been made to clean up the damage they caused during their break-in of a childcare centre in a remote community in the Barkly region. On January 26, six children aged 9 to 13 are alleged to have broken into and ransacked the premises, causing extensive damage ...
Goodstart made to be epilepsy smart
Perth Now - Staff Writer, Joondalup Times - February 9, 2021An Ocean Reef childcare centre has been recognised as being ‘epilepsy smart’. Epilepsy WA upskilled GoodStart centre staff and parents with beyond seizure first aid and presented the facility with an Epilepsy Smart certificate. The early learning centre joined a growing number of schools ...
Hunter childcare centre's worm farm funds its new book library
Newcastle Herald - Helen Gregory - February 9, 2021A Hunter childcare service is looking at the idea of book worms through a different lens, selling fertiliser from its worm farm to buy books for its new library. Director of Imagine Early Learning and Childcare at The Junction, Tiarn Stubbs, said the centre started a worm farm about two years ago ...
States must take lead on economic reform: NSW
Financial Review - John Kehoe - February 8, 2021After “decades of dormancy” states must lead the charge on productivity-boosting reforms to property tax, skills, education and healthcare, instead of always expecting the federal government to do the “heavy lifting”, says NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet. The federal government ...
2 ASX dividend shares with yields above 4.5%
The Motley Fool - James Mickleboro - February 8, 2021Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT is a real estate investment trust that invests in social infrastructure properties. At present the company owns a total of 371 properties across the ANZ region worth $1.3 billion and has a sky high 99.5% occupancy rate. These properties include childcare centres ...
Mayfield Childcare pays out dividend after raking in $12.4m from taxpayers
The New Daily - Matthew Elmas - February 8, 2021Another company has been dragged into the controversy surrounding JobKeeper, with Mayfield Childcare planning to pay out $2.7 million in dividends despite claiming millions of dollars in taxpayer support in 2020. Less than a week after furniture company Nick Scali came under fire for boosting ...
Sydney academics design ‘civic heart’ of remote Aboriginal town
ArchitectureAU - February 8, 2021The Aboriginal community of Murrin Bridge, 320 kilometres south-west of Dubbo in central west New South Wales, will soon have a new preschool and community as its “civic heart” after a proposal developed by a group of University of Technology Sydney architecture academics gained ...
