Child Care News
How childcare could reshape the Australian economy - Australian politics live podcast
The Guardian - Hosted by Katharine Murphy - October 24, 2020Podcast: Katharine Murphy speaks to the shadow early childhood education minister, Amanda Rishworth, about Labor’s new promise to overhaul the childcare subsidy system. How would the proposed reform change productivity in the workforce? And will the public support a...
Child care centres and school working with public health doctors to prevent gastro spread
The Courier Mail - Staff Writers - October 24, 2020At least nine Gold Coast child care centres and a school have reported outbreaks of vomiting or diarrhoea this week. The Gold Coast Public Health Unit is working with the affected child care facilities and school to reduce the further spread of infectious gastroenteritis, urging parents ...
Future of Mackay's oldest childcare centre in doubt with council deeming site 'no longer suitable'
ABC News - Angel Parsons - October 24, 2020As excitement builds around the future of Mackay's city centre and waterfront area, a historic childcare centre worries it will not be a part of it. The Mackay Regional Council has indicated it does not intend to renew Mackay Child Care Centre's lease — a decision that has been met ...
Corporate leader Sam Mostyn to lead top women’s lobby group
The Australian Business Review - Helen Trinca - October 23, 2020One of Australia’s best-known corporate leaders, Sam Mostyn, has been appointed president of the powerful advocacy body, Chief Executive Women. Ms Mostyn, who chairs Citigroup and sits on the Mirvac board, will succeed Sue Morphet at a time when CEW is pushing the...
Mandarin Centre Chatswood: 158 units, supermarket planned in 30 storey redevelopment
The Daily Telegraph - David Barwell, North Shore Times - October 23, 2020The Chatswood skyline is set to continue rising under plans to expand one of the region’s largest shopping centres into two skyscrapers with more than 150 units, a supermarket and a childcare centre. The Mandarin Centre on Albert Ave has released new plans to turn the five-storey ...
Furious mum whose toddler was one of TWO girls to escape from a daycare centre and almost walk into traffic says she will NEVER let her daughter go back there
Daily Mail Australia - Claudia Poposki and Lauren Ferri - October 23, 2020A mother whose daughter escape from a daycare with a friend and nearly walked into traffic says her girl will never return to the childcare centre. Amelia Finney's two-year-old daughter Skyla and another young girl were found wandering next to a busy road on the Gold Coast after ...
Mums and dads fork out $600 more annually for child care compared to a year ago
Geelong Advertiser - Chad Van Estrop - October 23, 2020Mums and dads could be forking out at least $600 more annually for child care compared to a year ago, as parents on the Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula face above-average price hikes. Parents living on the coast could be paying as much as $1600 more for two kids in child care...
Toddlers escape Gold Coast childcare centre and run towards main road, saved by quick-thinking passers-by
ABC News - Sarah Cumming - October 23, 2020A Gold Coast childcare operator says an investigation is underway into reports two toddlers escaped from its centre. A video posted to a community page on social media shows two young children running towards busy Foxwell Road yesterday, before older school children and another woman ...
Has the Queensland election campaign revealed where Annastacia Palaszczuk and Deb Frecklington stand on issues affecting women?
ABC News - Stephanie Zillman - October 23, 2020This is the first time two female leaders are vying to be Queensland premier, in an election campaign dominated by the response to COVID-19 and the resulting recession. So where do the major parties and their leaders stand on the big issues for women? Access to child care: Subsidising ...
Investing in childcare and aged care would boost GDP by $30 billion… and almost pay for itself
SmartCompany - Janine Dixon and Helen Hodgson - October 23, 2020In the absence of official analysis of the gendered impact of the budget, the National Foundation for Australian Women has this morning published its own gender analysis of the budget, across multiple dimensions. It finds the government has invested heavily in things that will ...
Centrelink support for grandparents, non-parent carers and what you need to know about subsidised childcare
7news.com.au - Kaitlin Peek and Jenny Ky - October 23, 2020With almost 30,000 more Australians leaving the workforce during September, unemployment figures have risen once again to 6.9 per cent. And while it’s been a stressful time for everyone, families have been doing it especially tough. But if you’re a working parent and you’ve been...
COVID-19 could be catalyst for childcare crisis as stressed, exhausted staff consider leaving
ABC News - Nathalie Fernbach - October 22, 2020Childcare workers say they are exhausted and centres are struggling to fill job vacancies as the sector continues to deal with the impact of the coronavirus. After an initial exodus of children from care — removed by parents concerned about COVID-19 or those who had lost their jobs ...
Man arrested over fake marriage tied to alleged daycare fraud scheme
The Sydney Morning Herald - Matt Gungard - October 22, 2020A western Sydney man has been arrested for his involvement in an alleged fake marriage scam, which has been linked to an alleged childcare fraud syndicate. The latest arrest comes after Strike Force Mercury, which was established in July 2018 to investigate fraudulent activities...
Melbourne childcare: Victoria’s best and worst early learning centres revealed
Herald Sun - Jordy Atkinson, Leader - October 22, 2020The number of government inspections of Victorian childcare centres this year is about a quarter of what it was in 2019. According to the Australia Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority, between January and September 2020, 233 Victorian child care centres and kindergartens ...
Hundreds of Victorian child cares and kindergartens below national minimum standards
Herald Sun - Jordy Atkinson, Leader - October 22, 2020Hundreds of Victorian childcare centres do not meet the national quality standards and two have been declared a “significant risk” to children’s safety, the latest ratings reveal. According to the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA), more than 500 ...
