Child Care News
Childcare provider G8 Education in staff underpayment shock
The Sydney Morning Herald - Sarah Danckert - December 8, 2020One of the largest owners of childcare facilities in Australia has revealed it has underpaid as many as 27,000 current and former workers as much as $80 million over six years after an audit. G8 Education said on Tuesday it had self-reported to the Fair Work Ombudsman after an audit ...
Labor ditches question time silent-treatment tactic
The Australian - Jade Gailberger - December 7, 2020After a week of asking the Prime Minister no questions, Labor has ditched the silent treatment to grill Scott Morrison over childcare. But on Monday, Labor’s childcare spokeswoman Amanda Rishworth used question time to accuse his scheme of punishing parents for working a fourth...
GEM - G8 Education Limited Investor Presentation
Financial Review - December 8, 2020Trading update; near term strategic priorities & outlook; Q&A; appendix.
Think Childcare Group (ASX Code: TNK) Appendix 3G
Financial Review - December 7, 2020Appendix 3G – Notification of issue, conversion or payment up of equity securities. Attached for release to the market is an Appendix 3G – Notification of issue, conversion or payment up of equity securities in relation to the issue of Performance Rights with respect to the Chief Financial ....
Gastro outbreak in Hunter childcare centres and schools
Newcastle Herald - Anita Beaumont - December 7, 2020Gastro is circulating in the Hunter, with almost 70 local childcare centres affected since the beginning of the "untimely" outbreak in October. About 50 childcare centres within Hunter New England are still battling outbreaks, with public health officials warning people with symptoms...
Glenwood House: Development plans for heritage-listed building
The Daily Telegraph - Kate Lockley, Blacktown Advocate - December 7, 2020A historic homestead in Sydney’s north west could get a new lease on life after scaled down plans for a childcare centre were revealed. The $1.3 million development application for the heritage-listed Glenwood House seeks to transform the building into a childcare centre for 58 children...
Framing child care reform as a cash grab for high-earning women is a distraction
Women's Agenda - Georgie Dent - December 7, 2020The Opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, and Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Care, Amanda Rishworth, have published a new online calculator to allow families to see how much they would save under Labor’s proposed changes to the way child care is subsidised...
$4 million Bloomfield child care centre plan with extended hours
Central Western Daily - David Fitzsimmons - December 7, 2020The next stage of the Bloomfield Medical Centre precinct development will involve a $4 million child care centre with extended hours to suit shiftworkers...
'Leading them nowhere': Long-term job security for youth under threat
The Sydney Morning Herald - Anna Patty - December 7, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has hit young people's job prospects particularly hard, with a new report revealing one in three are struggling to get enough hours of work to make ends meet which will impact their lifelong earnings. For 19-year-old Jonah from Penrith, the pandemic ...
Coronavirus NSW: Push to make au pair’s exempt from travel ban
The Daily Telegraph - Angira Bharadwaj, Karlie Rutherford, Christopher Harris, James O’Doherty - December 7, 2020Pressure is mounting on the federal government to exempt au pairs from international border restrictions because they are keeping parents at work. Pressure is mounting on the federal government to exempt au pairs from the strict COVID-19 international border restrictions so ...
Labor launches childcare fee calculator
Yahoo News - AAP - December 7, 2020Anthony Albanese is launching a childcare calculator he says will help families find out how much cheaper their fees would be under a Labor government. Mr Albanese says one million families would be better off under his party's alternative plans for early education. Labor is ...
VegKIT aims to help parents help kids eat vegetables
North Queensland Register - December 7, 2020As the Christmas season rolls in, Australian parents have been given an early gift to help get their children eating more vegetables. Australia's VegKIT project partners the CSIRO, Flinders University and Nutrition Australia have launched a collection of new resources that provide ...
Cumberland Council childcare centres sell-off plan advances
The Daily Telegraph - Joanne Vella - December 5, 2020A western Sydney council’s controversial plan to offload its 17 childcare centres has advanced but parents are calling for more transparency over the process. Cumberland Council’s controversial plan to privatise its 17 childcare centres has advanced but parents are calling for more ...
Labor’s childcare plan promises huge savings for parents
The Courier Mail - Lachlan McIlvor, Ipswich Queensland Times - December 4, 2020Childcare reform would give Anthony Albanese a legacy in line with some of Labor’s greatest former leaders if he is elected as the next Prime Minister according to his Ipswich colleague. Blair MP Shayne Neumann joined the ALP leader in Ipswich on Friday to spruik the party’s...
Group fights shortage of child care
The West Australian - Warren Hately - December 4, 2020An increasing shortage of childcare places has forced members of the Augusta community to take matters into their own hands. A band of residents have formed a new committee for the future Augusta Community Childcare Centre and are waiting on confirmation of a successful ...
