Child Care News
Queensland developer Sunland sells sites worth another 300 homes
Financial Review - Miranda Ward - November 27, 2020The Queensland-based developer, which first announced the potential sale of assets last month, on Friday said additional Gold Coast sites Lanes Childcare, Heights Development Land, and Marine Parade, Labrador were contracted for sale for a collective $31.3 million...
Roland Dean’s plan to help bayside cope with dramatic change in demographic
The Courier Mail - Brayden Heslehurst - November 27, 2020His family’s relationship with the bayside stretches back 50 years but now this man wants to bring in almost $10 million worth of flashy, new childcare centres to build on the dramatic transformation of one of Brisbane’s rising areas. Roland Dean, the managing director...
REVEALED: The Chinchilla region’s top childcare educator
The Chronicle - Peta McEachern - November 27, 2020THE community of Miles has trusted Leanne Grimes with the development and care of their children for a decade at the Murilla Kindergarten, so it was no surprise parents turned up in droves to vote for her as the Chinchilla district's top childcare educator. Babysitting since the age...
Faraday sticks close to Bain as childcare comes into frame
The Australian - Bridget Carter - November 26, 2020This time, Faraday, which is headed by restructuring expert Lachlan Edwards, is believed to be working with Bain Capital to offer advice on addressing challenges linked to the private equity firm’s Australian childcare businesses, Only About Children and Camp Australia. It is understood that Faraday’s...
Best-paid Victorian kinder teachers to earn more than school teachers
Sydney Morning Herald - Michael Fowler - November 26, 2020Victoria’s most senior early childhood teachers will earn more than school teachers under a new pay deal agreed between the state government and education union on Thursday. Salary increases of up to 31 per cent for kindergarten teachers and 27 per cent for educators...
Nido childcare centre approved to replace Duncraig homes
Joondalup Times - Tyler Brown - November 26, 2020A TWO-storey childcare centre has been approved to replace two homes at 29 and 31 Acacia Way in Duncraig. The $2.1 million Nido Early School centre will accommodate a maximum of 92 children and 15 staff and include two outdoor play areas, with one on the ground floor...
For All Children: Embedding cultural diversity in early childhood education
NSW Government - Education - November 26, 2020Manjula Waniganayake, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Macquarie University, explores strategies to support children and families from refugee/migrant backgrounds. Also watch two services talk about their culturally inclusive practices and programs...
Council is getting behind Thrive by Five
Mirage News - November 26, 2020The Swan Hill Rural City Council is encouraging the community to get behind the Thrive by Five campaign. Thrive by Five is a national online campaign lobbying for significant childcare reform for effective policy and investment in early childhood outcomes across Australia. Council’s Director...
Worker charged after alleged assault of a four-year-old boy with disability at Sydney childcare centre
9News.com.au - Olivana Lathouris - November 26, 2020A childcare worker has been charged over the alleged assault of a young boy with a disability at a childcare centre in Sydney's inner-west three years ago. Police this month began an investigation into reports the child had been assaulted by a worker at a childcare centre in Glebe in 2017...
We asked over 2,000 Australian parents how they fared in lockdown. Here’s what they said
The Conversation - Subhadra Evans, Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Elizabeth Westrupp; Deakin University - November 25, 2020Parents have faced unprecedented stress during the pandemic as they care for children while juggling paid work from home. However, very little research so far has focused on family well-being during the pandemic. So we asked more than 2,000 parents to tell us in their own words...
Has the pandemic created the ideal conditions for a “parent’s revolution”?
Women's Agenda - Kristine Ziwica - November 25, 2020Last year Dominque Barker, a 34-year-old Melbourne-based mother of two who works in the higher education sector, was inspired to take action. Having moved to Australia from New Zealand, Barker and her partner were dependent on long-day childcare as they both work full time...
Cobar childcare centre Kubby House forced to temporarily close
ABC News - ABC Western Plains, Jessie Davies - November 25, 2020Families in Cobar, western New South Wales, are urgently seeking qualified educators to save the town’s only long day-care service, which has abruptly closed leaving 40 families out on a limb. The Kubby House Child Care Centre closed this week after a number of educators ...
Edmonton kindergarten development: Citicare approved for new Hartill St childcare centre
The Courier Mail - Chris Calcino, The Cairns Post - November 25, 2020Playground warfare is about to erupt in a Cairns suburb after a decision was handed down on a controversial plan to open a childcare centre just 50m from an existing kindergarten. A dissenting petition with 189 signatures and seven separate in-depth submissions were made to Cairns...
Bidding war erupts for minnow, listed kiddie carer Think Childcare
The Australian Business Review - Melissa Yeo, Christine Lacy - November 24, 2020It’s shaping up as a bumper end to the year for Liberal Party powerbroker and investment banker Michael Kroger as a bidding war erupts for minnow, listed kiddie carer Think Childcare. Think, led by Mathew Edwards and chaired by Mark Kerr, finds itself in the sights of two suitors...
Gastro outbreak: Hundreds of childcare staff and children catch viral bug
The Daily Telegraph - Angira Bharadwaj - November 24, 2020Parents have been urged to keep sick kids at home after a concerning spike in gastroenteritis cases spreading across nearly 60 childcare centres in the state. Almost 600 staff and children have caught the viral bug across October and November, health authorities said. NSW Health ...
