Child Care News
Unsolicited NBIO from Busy Bees to acquire 100% of Think
Financial Review - November 23, 2020Think Childcare Group (ASX: TNK) (TNK or Group) has received an unsolicited, conditional, nonbinding all cash proposal from Busy Bees Early Learning Australia Pty Ltd (Busy Bees) to acquire, by scheme of arrangement, all the issued stapled securities in the Group (Securities) for cash...
Albanese promises a childcare boost for working families
Coast Community News - November 23, 2020The cost of childcare on the Central Coast was in the spotlight when NSW Labor Leader, Anthony Albanese, visited an Ourimbah children’s centre on November 13. Albanese was accompanied by Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Amanda Rishworth, and Federal Member ...
Plans for quirky Darwin CBD childcare centre at Energy House revived
Herald Sun - Madura McCormack, NT News - November 23, 2020Plans to build a wholly indoor childcare centre in the Darwin CBD have been revived, a year after the original proposal was struck down by authorities and described as “diabolical” by early childhood experts. However, the design of the proposed new childcare centre, on the ground floor ...
Childcare centre triumphantly announces open day after
The Courier Mail - Kara Sopnter, City North News - November 22, 2020As fire tore through a Brisbane’s childcare centre, a newly enrolled family was left in disbelief. Nina Ellingsen and her family live around the corner from Pod Early School’s new Newmarket location on Enoggera Rd and they were excited two-year-old Jack would be attending ...
NSW Health warning issued about gastro outbreak in childcare centres
Kidspot - Stacey Hicks - November 22, 2020It’s so heartbreaking when your little one is sick or in pain and you can’t do a thing to fix it. Now parents have been urged to be extra vigilant as “significantly higher than usual rates” of gastroenteritis have been reported at childcare centres across NSW. NSW Health says over 480 ...
After-school care sector warns of heavy toll of pandemic
The Age - Katina Curtis - November 21, 2020The federal government will consider special measures for before and after-school care services, which face financial ruin due to the coronavirus pandemic's normalisation of working from home leading to thousands of parents taking their children out of care. Victorian services ...
Convicted child killer Rick Thorburn jailed over sex offences at family day care centre
ABC News - Talissa Siganto - November 21, 2020Convicted child killer Rick Thorburn has been sentenced to five years in jail over more than a dozen child sex offences, including the rape of a young girl at a family day care centre south of Brisbane five years ago. Last November, Thorburn pleaded guilty to one count of rape...
North Parramatta: 52 Belmore Street childcare centre proposed
The Daily Telegraph - Joanne Vella, Parramatta Advertiser - November 21, 2020A double-storey childcare centre proposed for 52 Belmore St at North Parramatta has been labelled a contentious development by MP Geoff Lee but the development is closer to getting final approval. The facility would house 81 children on a 1092sq m site where a bungalow ...
The Not-for-Profit Educator That's Been Serving NSW for 80 years
HuffPost Australia Sponsored Content - Katherine Chatfield - November 20, 2020In education, experience counts for a lot. Established in 1940, Gowrie NSW has been educating and caring for children for the past 80 years, providing diverse education and care, family support and professional development services to the early and middle childhood sector...
45-Year-old Thornlands woman allegedly hits Redlands childcare centre with bomb hoax twice
The Courier Mail - Marcel Baum, Redlands Community News - November 20, 2020A 45-year-old woman who allegedly placed two bomb hoax letters under the doors of a popular southeast Queensland kindergarten did so in protest for free childcare, a court has heard. Appearing from remand via video link yesterday a plainly distraught Angela Maree Welsh was ...
School theft Melbourne: Crime Stoppers’ most wanted alleged school thieves
Herald Sun - Kimberley Seedy, Whitehorse Leader - November 20, 2020More than $22,000 worth of outdoor play equipment was stolen from a childcare centre in Whitfield Boulevard. A man entered the centre before allegedly spray-painting CCTV cameras at about 12.35am on September 14. He then allegedly proceeded to dismantle the play equipment ...
REVEALED: Dalby’s best childcare educator for 2020
Cairns Post - Sam Turner, Dalby Herald - November 20, 2020After hundreds of votes were cast in Dalby’s Best Childcare Educator poll, we can finally reveal who was the hard earned winner for 2020. Findlay Scougall was voted as Dalby’s best for her tireless efforts at Goodstart Early Learning in the last two and a half years. Ms Scougall said...
Imagine Childcare the first business to open at The Gateway, Kelso
Western Advocate - Rachel Chamberlain - November 20, 2020Families have been given another option for childcare thanks to the opening of a new facility in Kelso...
Education and Childcare SEPP streamlined
Mirage News - November 20, 2020The NSW Government is calling for feedback on proposals set to make it easier to meet demand for childcare and education facilities and streamline planning approval processes for those facilities. Department of Planning, Industry and Environment Executive Director of State Policies and ...
Is our child-care system due for a change?
ABC Radio - On Overnights with Mark Sutton - November 20, 2020COVID has sparked fresh discussion over child-care in Australia. Is it benefiting the child, the parent, or is it just another pricey business venture? More than a minding service, child-care is essential to the early development of the child. Professor Susan Irvine, Head of the School of ...
