Child Care News
‘Not paid’: $90k sting after child care centre’s volunteer rort
Yahoo Financial - Lucy Dean - August 19, 2020A Sydney childcare business and its owner will be required to pay $89,844 in penalties and wage back pay after failing to pay two workers an entire year’s pay. The Joys Child Care centre Parramatta owner Jan Shang has been slapped with a $5,040 fine after incorrectly classing two workers...
Lockdown reveals Victorian Bar's 'dirty secret'
Financial Review - Ronald Mizen - August 19, 2020Senior Victorian barristers say the state's courts are discriminating against parents by proceeding with trials and hearings while doing little to ensure the lawyers involved can access childcare. Under Victoria's draconian stage four lockdown laws, only households...
Penelope Phair: 70yo childcare worker did not want to work with babies
The Daily Telegraph - Christopher Harris - August 18, 2020An eastern suburbs preschool worker who was fired after refusing to take a job that would involve changing nappies and travelling to southwestern Sydney has won her job back. The Fair Work Commission found childcare worker Penelope Phair, 70, was forced to resign...
Geocon DA knockback in Gungahlin vindicates YMCA childcare centre stand
The Riot Act - Ian Bushnell - August 18, 2020Development behemoth Geocon has lost a battle with the YMCA child care centre next door to its proposed mixed-use development in Gungahlin after the planning authority comprehensively rejected its bid to change its already approved plans for the site in Swain Street...
Meriton plans for 200 residential apartments and child care in Macquarie Park
The Daily Telegraph - Nicole Pierre - August 18, 2020Two hundred apartments and a child care centre has been proposed by construction giant Meriton in a major $67 million Macquarie Park development. Just months after the controversial nearby Talavera Road towers were approved, Meriton has lodged fresh plans for...
MFD CY2020 First Half Results & Investor Presentation
Financial Review - August 18, 2020Mayfield Childcare Limited (ASX:MFD) is pleased to announce its results for the first half of Calendar Year 2020. Statutory revenue from continuing operations was $9.4m (down 40.5%). With the inclusion of the ECEC Relief Package and JobKeeper Wage Subsidies of $7.0m, revenue increased...
9 in 10 families struggle to keep kids in childcare
Nestegg.com.au - Cameron Micallef - August 17, 2020As the government’s childcare subsidy ends and payments revert to pre-COVID status, nine in 10 Australians have said that it will be a financial burden to send their children to childcare, new research has found. New nationally representative research from comparison site ...
A natural ventilated childcare centre by CASA settles within NZ countryside
Architectureanddesign.com.au - Via designboom - August 17, 2020Sitting sensitively within its rural New Zealand context, the ‘fantails’ childcare center by CASA (Collingridge and Smith architects) uses sustainable design to provide state-of-the-art, modern education spaces for 154 young children. The building incorporates dynamic forms...
Opinion: Why childcare must be made free
Financial Review - Sam Crosby - August 17, 2020Our confusing, inefficient, and unfair system of childcare is what you get when you take an industrial system designed for male breadwinners and adapt it ad hoc over time for the increasing participation of women. It’s so easy to get lost in the policy weeds of our childcare debate ...
Think Childcare Group 2020 half-year results investor call details
Financial Review - August 17, 2020Think Childcare Group (ASX: TNK) (Group) expects to announce its half-year results for 2020 on 19 August 2020...
Calls for female-focused budget as women face financial 'gender disaster'
The Age - Wendy Tuohy - August 16, 2020Women are experiencing a "gender disaster" of job losses and long-term financial insecurity and many will be "scarred in the labour market" unless economic recovery efforts are female focused. After Australian Bureau of Statistics payroll data this week revealed Victorian women...
Mummy influencers spruik eastern suburbs childcare
The Sydney Morning Herald - Lucy Manly - August 16, 2020Former rugby league WAG Phoebe Burgess has been touting a yet-to-be-built eastern suburbs childcare centre to her Insta followers. The ex-wife of Souths star Sam Burgess has encouraged prospective parents to pre-enrol at Vaucluse Early Learning Centre...
Skills Boost For Early Childhood Language Teachers
Mirage News - August 14, 2020Early childhood language teachers will get the opportunity to boost their language teaching skills thanks to the Victorian Government. Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education Sonya Kilkenny today officially opened the 2020 training program for language teachers...
GI symptoms have a link to behavioural problems, particularly in children with autism
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 14, 2020A new study, conducted by UC Davis Health, has found that common GI symptoms are linked to behavioural problems in children, especially those with autism. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation and bloating are linked to troubling sleep problems...
Mirage News - August 13, 2020
University of Wollongong Early Start – along with key partners in Early Childhood Australia and Playgroup Australia – has been successful with an application to the Ian Potter Foundation for $190,0000 over two years to undertake the Early Learning @ Home project...
