Child Care News
Single parents are getting priced out of daycare, triggering a vicious cycle of entrenched poverty
The Conversation - Barbara Broadway, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, University of Melbourne - November 20, 2020Female workforce participation has risen for the past two decades in Australia, and in turn, more young kids have been attending formal childcare. So it’s very surprising the latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey shows a steep fall in the use ...
Has COVID changed the agenda for women?
The Australian Business Review - Helen Trinca - November 20, 2020Two words have dominated the conversation this year — jobs and COVID-19. This year has been about employment, about part-time work, about government subsidies failing or assisting women, and child care. The overarching issues remain but for many women the focus must...
Everything to know about Victoria’s free kinder scheme for 2021
Herald Sun - Ashley Argoon, Herald Sun - November 19, 2020Free kinder has been announced for 2021 but Victorian families and childcare centres have been left confused by what it means for them. A $169.6 million pre-budget package revealed last week is expected to save parents about $2000 for each child in a funded program...
Two Kendall men face child sex charges
The Daily Telegraph - Dan Mills - November 19, 2020Two men at the centre of one of the nation’s largest alleged child sex exploitation cases allegedly committed sexual abuse against 28 children, 16 of whom one of the men allegedly assaulted 46 times at a Mid-North Coast childcare centre. It is alleged that one of the men engaged in ...
Childcare costs are double the OECD average
Coast Community News - November 19, 2020Labor Leader, Anthony Albanese and Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education, Amanda Rishworth, joined Federal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, on a visit to KU Ourimbah Preschool and Children’s Centre to see the results of quality early education. The visit coincided ...
New COVID-19 Direction 2020 – Stay at Home, South Australia
Mirage News - November 19, 2020A new Direction has been issued in relation to the Stay at Home requirements for South Australia as a Circuit Breaker to the current COVID-19 outbreak. The Emergency Management (COVID-19) (Stay at Home) Direction 2020 has been issued. This Direction comes into effect as of ...
'Special book from unique time in history': Mudgee Preschool fundraising initiative a lesson from lockdown
Mudgee Guardian - November 19, 2020Events have taken a hit this year and for Mudgee Community Preschool much of their social calendar also doubles as important fundraising, but they've found a way to make lemonade from lockdown lemons. The 2020 Mudgee Community Preschool Social Club is of a group of ...
New Kyneton kindergarten to be located at Kyneton Primary School
Bendigo Advertiser - Tara Cosoleto - November 19, 2020There will be a new kindergarten built in Kyneton to help boost enrolment capacity in the growing region. The state government on Thursday announced it would fund the new kinder, which would be located at the Kyneton Primary School. The primary school's principal Alistair Rayner...
SA COVID outbreak exposure sites: Schools, childcare centre and pizza bar customers forced to quarantine
7News.com.au - Emily Olle - November 18, 2020Thousands of staff and students at four Adelaide schools and a childcare centre will be forced to self-quarantine for 14 days as South Australia’s latest COVID-19 outbreak worsens. Anyone who attended Thomas More College, in Salisbury Downs, or Roma Mitchell Secondary College...
SA lockdown to stamp out virulent virus strain
Financial Review - Simon Evans and Phillip Coorey - November 18, 2020Petrol stations, vet surgeries and medical surgeries will all be able to stay open, while freight services and airports will also operate. Childcare services will stay open only for the children of essential workers. Business SA chief executive Martin Haese said while the lockdown would send ''shockwaves''...
Adelaide schools, shopping centres added to hotspot locations as five new cases confirmed
9News.com.au - Billy Vickers - November 18, 2020Five schools have now been closed in Adelaide due to coronavirus concerns. The Roma Mitchell College has been forced to close along with Mawson Lakes Primary School and Preschool, Thomas More College, the Holy Family Catholic School and Mount Carmel College...
The child-care sector needs an overhaul, not more tinkering with subsidies and tax deductions
The Conversation - Kate Noble and Sarah Pilcher, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University - November 17, 2020Recent reports suggest several Liberal MPs are calling for child-care costs to be tax-deductible. They argue allowing families who can’t access subsidies to claim child-care costs as a tax deduction would boost women’s workforce participation and productivity. They also say it would give...
Community and mobile preschools will be free for NSW families in 2021
Wingham Chronicle - November 17, 2020Families and young children in NSW will benefit from an extra year of free preschool with the NSW government announcing funding for community and mobile preschools in 2021. The NSW government is committing $120 million to fund a year of free preschool for more than 44,000...
OPINION State Budget: Boosting household spending needs to be a priority
The Age - Janine Dixon - November 17, 2020In one week the Victorian public will discover how the Andrews government plans to use the state budget to reinvigorate the Victorian economy after a horror year... Following the Commonwealth budget, advocacy groups and think tanks called for more spending in the care sector...
Local families hit by child care increases - Linda Burney
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader - Linda Burney - November 17, 2020Increases in child care fees have hit local families particularly hard, Federal Member for Barton, Linda Burney said. "The latest child care data published by the Department of Education shows there has been a 35.9 per cent increase in child care fees since the Coalition was elected...
