Child Care News
Cost of some childcare expected to jump more than 16 per cent
Geelong Advertiser - Tamsin Rose - December 23, 2020The cost of some childcare is expected to jump more than 16% over the next four years, according to modelling by the federal government. Parents could be forced to spend almost 5% more to access long daycare for their kids in 2021 with further increases each year to 16.2% by mid 2024...
Toddle Acquires Care For Kids To Create Australia's Largest Child Care Search Platform
Toddle.com.au - December 18, 2020Toddle is pleased to announce the acquisition of Care for Kids, Australia's strongest and most recognised child care platform. Together, the two brands have become Australia's largest destination for child care search with well over 3 million visits each year. The acquisition was announced yesterday...
Toddle acquires Care for Kids to create Australia’s largest child care search platform
The Sector - Jason Roberts - December 18, 2020Childcare centre search and comparison platform, Toddle, has confirmed it has successfully acquired rival platform Care for Kids in a transaction that will see the combined business become the largest destination for families searching for child care, with in excess of three million visits...
Maraylya: Childcare centre at 340 Maguires Rd on bushfire-prone land
The Daily Telegraph - Joane Vella, Hills Shire Times - December 18, 2020A massive $3.5 million childcare centre for 200 children at Maraylya sits on bushfire-prone land but the architects for the project insist safety standards have been met following a redesign of the building. A development application for the sprawling centre at 340 Maguires Rd has been...
Additional targeted support for students and families
Mirage News - December 17, 2020The Morrison Government is building on its $51 billion investment in education contained in the Budget through additional targeted measures to support students and families. In the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, the Government will provide: A deadline extension to 31 March 2021...
A fond farewell for founding childcare coordinator
Margaret River Mail - December 17, 2020Colleagues, friends, parents and children gathered on Saturday to celebrate the retirement of the founding coordinator of the Margaret River Community Centre for Children. Lynda Green was first employed by the Margaret River Community Centre in 2001 to provide occasional child care.
Business chiefs call out 10 vital reforms
Financial Review - December 16, 2020Childcare: Owen Wilson from REA Group and Elizabeth Gaines from Fortescue Metals Group said increased incentives for childcare would lift productivity. "Affordable and quality childcare is required to complement workplace policies, to ensure we have every opportunity to recover...
How Indigenous-led childcare centres could help close Australia's education gap
ABC News - ABC Radio National / By Erica Vowles for Life Matters - December 17, 2020When Wayne Griffiths first went to primary school, it was a terrifying experience. "I grew up in a little town called Curlewis [in northern NSW], and my first day at school was so traumatic I cried most of the morning and eventually I had to be taken home by my eldest brother," ...
Are Mayfield Childcare's (ASX:MFD) Statutory Earnings A Good Guide To Its Underlying Profitability?
Simply Wall St - December 16, 2020Many investors consider it preferable to invest in profitable companies over unprofitable ones, because profitability suggests a business is sustainable. That said, the current statutory profit is not always a good guide to a company's underlying profitability. Today we'll focus on ...
Chanticleer CEO poll: Top leaders set recovery reform agenda
Financial Review - December 16, 2020Australia's top business leaders want governments to pursue three key areas of reform to kick-start Australia's economic recovery: tax reform, infrastructure and industrial relations. But the determination to use the pandemic to build a stronger and more equitable economy also shines...
Workplaces where COVID-19 vaccine may become mandatory
Daily Telegraph - Melanie Burgess - December 16, 2020A future COVID-19 vaccine could become compulsory for some Australian workers, forcing them to get the jab or lose their job. Have your say in our poll....Early learning provider Goodstart Early Learning also declared it a requirement of employment in June, despite it not being ....
Three-storey childcare centre proposed for Brunswick Street, New Farm
The Courier Mail - Thomas Morgan - December 16, 2020A new childcare centre for 100 children has been proposed in a rapidly growing inner-city district, right next to one of Brisbane’s busiest roads. A new three-storey childcare centre proposed on a heritage-listed site will offer kids one of the best views of the CBD. Plans were lodged...
Real-life 'Santa's workshop' repairs toys for Western Sydney University Early Learning Hawkesbury
Hawkesbury Gazette - December 16, 2020Hawkesbury's very own toy workshop was toiling away in the lead-up to Christmas with a group of real-life 'Santas' repairing toys for children. Under a new partnership between Western Sydney University Early Learning Hawkesbury and the Hawkesbury Valley Men's Shed...
Marys Mount childcare centre wins approval despite traffic, access concerns
Goulburn Post - Louise Thrower - December 16, 2020A fourth childcare facility in the growing Marys Mount area has been given the go ahead amid vehement objections surrounding parking and access...
Yield-hungry buyers snap up retail, childcare assets worth $60m
Financial Review - Larry Schlesinger - December 15, 2020Yield-hungry private investors have snapped up $58.8 million of fast-food outlets, childcare centres and retail investments at the final commercial property portfolio auction of the year. Seven childcare centres in NSW and Queensland sold individually for a combined $23.79 million ...
