Child Care News
COVID-19 Macarthur: Multiple locations Bunnings Gregory Hills and Emerald Hill McDonalds are including in new Covid sites
The Daily Telegraph - Caitlin Dugan, Macarthur Chronicle - October 20, 2020Alerts have been issued for an Oran Park childcare centre, after an educator and a family now linked to a confirmed covid-19 case attended the centre. NSW recorded two new locally acquired cases on Tuesday October 20. One case is linked to the Oran Park childcare cluster...
New Sunkids Eight Mile Plains childcare centre: Alfresco dining, indoor forest
The Courier Mail - Alex Treacy, Quest Newspapers - October 20, 2020A “next generation” childcare centre opening early next year will boast an indoor forest, Japanese Zen garden, art studio, bike path, free coffee and an “alfresco dining piazza” with an in-house chef cooking meals for both kids and parents. The 101-place, $7 million centre will open at ...
Childcare operator cops fine over toddler's scorched feet
7news.com.au - Summer Woolley - October 20, 2020A Perth childcare provider has been ordered to pay $10,000 after a two-year-old burnt her feet while playing outside. Staff at North Fremantle School of Early Learning took a group of children outside for afternoon tea in the centre’s undercover area about 2.20pm on February 3...
PM asked why families earning $189,000 aren’t eligible for more child care help
news.com.au - Samantha Maiden - October 19, 2020Scott Morrison has accused Labor leader Anthony Albanese of “reheating” the politics of class warfare over whether or not people earning over $180,000 are rich and deserve childcare rebates. The brawl follows the Prime Minister’s observation last week that hardworking mining...
Labor launches attack on ‘unaffordable’ childcare system
news.com.au - Jade Gailberger - October 19, 2020Scott Morrison has been grilled over a childcare system shake-up he oversaw as social services minister. The opposition ramped up its attack on unaffordable childcare in question time on Monday after promising to lift the maximum childcare subsidy rate from 85% to 90% and ...
New modelling finds investing in childcare and aged care almost pays for itself
The Conversation - Janine Dixon, Victoria University and Helen Hodgson, Curtin University - October 19, 2020In the absence of an official analysis of the impact of the budget by gender 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 mainly ...
The expert, detailed analysis of the Budget’s impact on women is here. It’s not pretty
Women's Agenda - Georgie Dent - October 19, 2020The National Foundation of Australian Women's annual Gender Lens report concludes the Budget is a missed opportunity to pursue positive structural reform. In 2014, after 40 years of production, the Commonwealth government stopped producing the Women’s Budget Statement...
Between Covid, climate change and the budget, no wonder many women are rethinking having babies
The Guardian - Jane Caro - October 19, 2020Opinion: Josh Frydenberg has urged women to have more children - but there was nothing in the budget to encourage them to do so... A new baby boom may well be good for the economy, but the question increasingly being asked by women of child-bearing age is whether it will be good ...
New Murrumbateman outdoor space welcomes families from Canberra
RiotAct - Dominic Giannini - October 19, 2020YWCA Canberra’s Fairley Early Childhood Service is getting a new outdoor space and Gungahlin and North Canberra residents are being urged to take advantage of the new space as well. The new space has been modelled on local Indigenous influences and will be opened with a ...
Build childcare around the needs of parents, not childcare centres
The Sydney Morning Herald - Amanda Vanstone - October 18, 2020Opinion: The mere mention of childcare policy reminds me of the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”. It is a fairly harsh way of reminding us that good intentions are not enough. Similarly, the phrase “I only meant well” is usually associated with what is generally unsuccessful...
NSW records five new coronavirus cases as Sydney childcare cluster grows
news.com.au - Heath Parkes-Hupton - October 18, 2020The one locally acquired case has been linked to the Great Beginnings Childcare Centre in Oran Park, which has been identified as the source of six infections so far. There are now 19 confirmed cases in the Oran Park community. “All staff and children who attended Great Beginnings ...
Child care not associated with spread of COVID-19, Yale study finds
Yale News - October 16, 2020Yale researchers conducted the first-ever large-scale assessment of the risk of working in child care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their findings show child care programs that remained open throughout the pandemic did not contribute to the spread of the virus to providers...
New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures lay bare COVID-19’s impact on households
The West Australian - Paul Osborne, AAP - October 16, 2020More than one in five Australian families are jobless, as the coronavirus pandemic slugs the economy. The Australian Bureau of Statistics found there are 1.5 million families in which each member over the age of 15 is unemployed, retired or otherwise not in the labour force. An estimated 580,000 children ...
Childcare centre fined for supervision breach
The West Australian - Jackson Lavell-Lee, Busselton Dunsborough Times - October 16, 2020Vasse childcare centre Nature’s Atelier has been fined $12,500 and $3500 in court costs for “numerous systemic failures” in child supervision near roads. The State Administrative Tribunal last month found that GILMI Enterprises Pty Ltd, trading as Nature’s Atelier, breached Section 165 (1) ...
Why Are Women Paying To Work?
Marie Claire Australia - George Dent - October 16, 2020Having worked in finance for almost 20 years, Nichole Alexander isn’t averse to running her eyes over a spreadsheet populated with numbers. But there’s one figure the Sydney-based mum of three has studiously avoided for seven years: exactly how much she and her husband have spent on childcare ...
