Child Care News
‘Crippling’ side effect of $120-a-day childcare costs
Yahoo Finance - Angela Priestley - October 16, 2020I hear this all the time from parents of young kids: “I want to pick up a fourth or fifth day at work, but it doesn’t make economic sense given the added childcare costs.” And mostly, these parents are women. They’re usually the ‘primary carer’ of a household and they’ve painstakingly crunched ...
Tassie suburbs that are most affordable and most expensive childcare in the state
Mercury - Claire Bickers - October 16, 2020Childcare costs in Hobart’s northwest rose almost $700 in a year ahead of the pandemic, new figures show. A snapshot of childcare costs across Tasmania in the 12 months to May reveals Devonport had the biggest spike in the state, with fees rising almost 8.9 per cent. The average hourly...
Hunter early childhood educator wins the People's Choice Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year
Newcastle Herald - October 15, 2020Cardiff South's Raymond Steadman has received statewide recognition for his work as an early childhood education trainee, winning the People's Choice Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year at the 2020 NSW Training Awards. Parliamentary Secretary for ...
A career in early education and care with Communities@Work
RiotAct - Liz Tickner - October 15, 2020A 10,000km journey from Delhi in India to Canberra two years ago has paid off for Kavita Ogale who, with her husband and young daughter, came in search of a new life. Today, Kavita is the proud recipient of a Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care, works part-time in the industry ...
Police drop assault charge against Banksia Grove childcare worker
Perth Now - Tyler Brown, Wanneroo Times - October 15, 2020Police have dismissed an assault charge against a daycare owner accused of breaking a baby’s arm. Bindu Nirav Patel, who owns Little Kingdom Family Daycare in Banksia Grove, was expected to face trial on Monday having pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault causing ...
Goulburn educator Louse Hill receives third award from Family Day Care Australia
Goulburn Post - Nicholas Fuller - October 15, 2020Her love for children has earned Goulburn early childhood educator Louise Hill a regional award for excellence in family day care for the third time...
Why it’s time for universal, free, taxpayer-funded childcare
Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Irvine - October 15, 2020It’s taken me nearly 40 years to put my finger on it, but I realise now I belong to a generation of women I am calling “gaslit feminists”. Gaslighting is a term in psychology that has its roots in a 1938 stage play “Gas Light” in which a husband causes the gas lights to flicker in his home...
$5 billion into childcare will boost GDP by $11 billion a year: The Government’s missed opportunity
Dynamic Business - Ann Wen - October 14, 2020The Grattan Institute estimates that a $5 billion a year investment in childcare will boost GDP by $11 billion a year, lead to a 13 per cent increase in hours worked by second-earned with young children and boost a woman’s lifetime earnings by about $150,000. This would be equivalent..
A study of 57,000 childcare providers found no risk of increased COVID-19 spread between kids and adults
Business Insider - Andrea Michelson - October 14, 2020As the pandemic drudges on, parents and providers alike are looking for safe childcare options.The results of the first large-scale assessment of the risks of working in childcare settings, published today in Pediatrics, suggest that it could be safe to reopen such programs...
The PM's message for parents needing childcare during coronavirus pandemic
7news.com.au - October 14, 2020Parents struggling to pay childcare fees will benefit from tax cuts, the prime minister insists. Last week’s federal budget has been criticised for not providing enough support for women, or for childcare. Asked what his plans were to help parents pay for rising childcare costs...
Kingston South East community pushes to fix a 30-year shortage of childcare places
ABC South East SA - Isadora Bogle and Liz Rymill - October 15, 2020The Kingston South East community, 300 kilometres south-east of Adelaide, has renewed a push to resolve a shortage of childcare in the coastal town it has endured for more than 30 years. Kingston Childcare Working Group spokesperson Kirsty Starling said 46 children...
Childcare worker Kerri Louise Wharf to fight allegations she scratched four young children at daycare centre
ABC News - Joanna Menagh - October 14, 2020A 23-year-old childcare worker will fight allegations she assaulted four young children by scratching them at a childcare centre in Perth's north, a court has heard. Kerri Louise Wharf made her first appearance in the Joondalup Magistrates Court today after being charged last month...
Qld premier says childcare 'no-brainer'
Canberra Times - Marty Silk - October 14, 2020Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says providing child care is a "no-brainer" and criticised the lack of federal support in the budget. Scott Morrison has been in Queensland this week to campaign for the Liberal National Party ahead of the state election. Ms Palaszczuk...
Townsville childcare centres mostly pass government assessment
Townsville Bulletin - Keagan Elder and Geoff Egan - October 14, 2020Most of Townsville’s daycare centres are meeting national standards, with a high number exceeding the standards. It comes as 184 child care centres across Queensland were inspected by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority between January and September 2020...
What women want out of childcare
Financial Review - Fiona Mueller - October 14, 2020Opinion: Labor has made cheaper childcare a centrepiece of its response to the federal budget, saying that women's workforce participation is crucial to Australia's economic recovery and lifting the child care subsidy by 15 per cent as the best way of facilitating this...
