Child Care News
Children Need 4-6 Hours Outdoors For Development And Overall Wellbeing
Living Architecture Monitor - August 10, 2020It’s happening everywhere we look. Playgrounds are abandoned. Yards are empty. Streets are void of bike riding. A car can drive down the street without being interrupted by the shouts of, “GAME OFF!”, while kids scatter out of the road. For whatever reason , children are spending less time outdoors ...
Free Kinder in Vic for Term 3: Merlino
EducationHQ News - August 10, 2020All Kinder will be free in Victoria for the remainder of the school term, with the state government extending its sector support program and contributing an additional $1.6 million in grants. Education Minister James Merlino on Sunday said permitted workers under stage-four COVID-19 restrictions...
Clarification for Victorian ECEC services about access permits – one parent or two?
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 10, 2020The Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety has issued clear guidance and guidelines about the early childhood permit, required in Victoria from 6 August, in order for children of permitted workers to access early childhood education and care (ECEC). Although initial guidance...
Vic Ed Minister confirms that kinder will be free for families in Term Three
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 10, 2020All kinder programs in Victoria will be free for the duration of Term Three, the State’s Education Minister announced yesterday, with children also supported to learn from home thanks to a relief package to support early childhood services through the pandemic. The extension to the free ...
Should you invest in ASX 200 childcare shares during stage 4 lockdown?
Yahoo Finance - Lloyd Prout, Motley Fool - August 10, 2020With Melbourne in stage 4 lockdown and increasing restrictions on state-based travel due to the coronavirus pandemic, childcare operators like G8 Education Ltd (ASX: GEM) and Think Childcare Ltd (ASX: TNK) have come under intense pressure. But with the Federal Government paying...
Daniel Andrews holds Facebook Victoria coronavirus Stage 4 Q&A
7news.com.au - Lucy Mae Beers - August 10, 2020The Victorian Premier has held a Q&A on his Facebook page, answering some of the Stage 4 restrictions that are causing confusion among residents. Overnight on Sunday, Daniel Andrews answered questions related to the current COVID restrictions. Permitted workers and childcare:
Reforming ‘dad leave’ is a baby step towards greater gender equality
The Conversation AU - Owain Emslie, Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths: Grattan Institute - August 10, 2020Grattan Institute research published today shows the average 25-year-old woman who goes on to have a child can expect to earn A$2 million less by the time she is 70 than the average 25-year-old man who becomes a father. For childless women and men, the lifetime gap is about A$300,000...
Childcare confusion: jobkeeper loophole may give some educators access
The Guardian - Daniel Hurst - August 10, 2020Family daycare educators may continue to be eligible for jobkeeper despite the Australian government’s decision to cut off the childcare sector’s access to the wage subsidy scheme. The discovery of the loophole for sole traders providing family daycare has sparked calls for the government ...
There's one easy way to create a new baby boom
The Canberra Times - Marian Baird, Daniel Dinale - August 10, 2020Opinion: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was quick to encourage Australian couples to head to the bedroom for the sake of the economy in last week's National Press Club address, harking back to Treasurer Peter Costello's comment in 2002 exhorting Australians to have "one for mum...
Operators scramble as changes to childcare on-site access come into place
Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien and Tamsin Rose - August 9, 2020Monday will be D-Day for childcare, with parents and operators scrambling over the weekend to understand rule changes to on-site access. An influx of admissions was expected in many centres, as relieved parents, who have only one permitted worker, drop off their children.
Boosting childcare funding would encourage women back to work on day four and five
The Australian - Stephen Lunn - August 9, 2020A taxpayer-funded boost to childcare support could add $6bn a year to the economy by freeing up mothers to do more paid work, moving Australia beyond the current “1.5 worker household” that is more prevalent here than in most developed countries. The proposal is contained in ...
Cheaper childcare could boost economy by $11b a year: Grattan Institute
Brisbane Times - Jennifer Duke - August 9, 2020Working mums could add $150,000 more to their lifetime earnings if the federal government subsidised the cost of childcare more, with new research promising an $11 billion-a-year boost to the economic recovery by helping women back into the workforce. The new scheme proposed by ...
Free kinder across Victoria for term three
The Standard - August 9, 2020All kinder will be free in Victoria for the remainder of the school term, with the state government extending its sector support program and contributing an additional $1.6 million in grants. Education Minister James Merlino on Sunday said permitted workers under stage-four COVID-19 ...
There is 'no evidence' that a case of COVID-19 in a school is the start of wave two
Skynews.com.au - August 9, 2020Sky News host Paul Murray says the alarmism surrounding the spread of COVID-19 in schools as a source of a future wave is unfounded. “You may have noticed on the 6pm news as they try to find a new thing to scare you about each and every night: ‘hundreds of students in isolation amid ...
Burgess Rawson Childcare Industry report issued as team marks $1bn in centre sales
The Sector - Jason Roberts - August 9, 2020Burgess Rawson, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) focused real estate and business broker, has released its 2020 Childcare Industry Insights report in which it reviews the key trends impacting the ECEC sector over the last ten years and confirms that it has reached the $1 billion...
