Child Care News
Preschools to have more places for those on waiting lists.
Goulburn Post - July 9, 2020Is your child waiting to be accepted into preschool? Well the NSW government is helping out by allowing more families access to preschool thanks to a new round of funding from the Start Strong Capital Works Grants for community preschools. They will be creating additional places ...
'Robodebt 2.0': tax office tells hundreds of childcare providers they are ineligible for jobkeeper
The Guardian - Elias Visontay - July 9, 2020The tax office has told hundreds of childcare providers across Australia they are ineligible for jobkeeper payments and warned they may have to pay back what they have already received, despite the government’s free childcare scheme automatically qualifying them for the wage subsidy...
Genius Childcare set to offer something different for Home Hill
Townsville Bulletin - Mikayla Mayoh - July 8, 2020After more than two years without a child care centre in the town, Home Hill’s newest facility will open its doors soon, potentially providing employment for more than 20 childcare workers in the area. In 2018 Home Hill was left without a daycare service when operators of the Village Kids closed...
TLC begins construction of new facility
Ageing Agenda - July 8, 2020Victorian aged care provider TLC Healthcare has broken ground on its newest development, an integrated care, health and wellbeing hub in Mordialloc, Melbourne. The hub includes a 150-bed aged care home, 120-place childcare centre, community medical centre...
Grants available to local preschools
Community Coast News - July 7, 2020Central Coast preschools can apply now for a share of $10M from the NSW Government’s Start Strong Capital Works Grants program. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the funding is targeted at creating new places in preschools...
Forklift licence in more demand than a bachelor's degree
Financial Review - Matthew Cranston - July 8, 2020Workers with no formal qualifications are the largest group in the workforce being sought by employers in the COVID-19 recovery phase, new data from the National Skills Commission shows. The top occupation where employers are having difficulty finding workers is childcare...
Victorian childcare centres to get fee help after lockdown decision
The Age - Fergus Hunter - July 7, 2020Parents locked down in Melbourne will have their gap fees waived if their children don't attend childcare, while centres will be able to claim subsidies for children who aren't there. The urgent measures were announced on Tuesday night after the Victorian government announced...
Victoria's bitter $12b hit from return to lockdown
Financial Review - Andrew Tillett and Matthew Cranston - July 7, 2020However, Education Minister Dan Tehan will allow centres to waive the gap fee paid by parents if they withdraw their child for COVID-19 reasons, saving families money while retaining their place. The government will continue to pay the childcare subsidy to the centre...
Darlington Public School: New classrooms, library, childcare centre
The Daily Telegraph - Joanna Panagopoulos, Central Sydney - July 7, 2020The Department of Education is planning for more than 200 extra enrolments at Darlington Public School over the next 15 years with a $20 million plus redevelopment project. A new two and three-storey L-shape building along Golden Grove and Abercrombie St would replace ...
Trafalgar Primary Early Learning Centre ready to go
Mirage News - July 7, 2020Local families can look forward to a more straightforward school drop-off with the new Trafalgar Primary Early Learning Centre ready to open for term three. Co-located at the Trafalgar Primary School, the new centre will provide up to 132 places for three and four-year-old...
WHO’s early years childcare guidelines have changed - Here’s everything you need to know
World Economic Forum - Annabelle Timsit, Reporter, Early Childhood Development, Quartz - July 6, 2020The World Health Organization has issued new guidelines on boosting the development and well-being of children aged 0-to-3. They move the emphasis towards the science that proves children need warm, loving care. This is how it's taken 70 years to move from 'survive' to 'thrive'...
Revelop’s Newton Village shopping centre to undergo multimillion dollar upgrade
The Advertiser - Giuseppe Tauriello - July 6, 2020Western Sydney developer Revelop has hit the ground running following its acquisition of Newton Village shopping centre. Revelop plans to invest more than $10 million in a centre upgrade including a proposal to build a childcare centre on the rooftop car park...
Three-year-old Kinder on the way for children living in Hepburn Shire
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 6, 2020Children in Hepburn Shire Council will be able to access funded three-year-old kindergarten from the first time in 2021 at sites such as Daylesford Community Child Care, Daylesford Preschool, Hepburn Kindergarten and Trentham Kindergarten. Bringing three-year-old kindergarten to Victoria ...
Healthy Australia program aims to reduce childhood obesity by half before 2025
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 6, 2020Healthy eating program feedAustralia is aiming for an ambitious target of halving the rate of children aged five to 14 years of age who are overweight or obese by 2025. The partnership between the Australian Government and Healthy Australia has successfully created the feedAustralia...
Workers and parents fear childcare centres in hotspots could fail
The Age - Anna Prytz - July 6, 2020Workers and parents are worried some childcare services could collapse with the looming end of fee-free care and JobKeeper payments, as a spate of positive COVID-19 cases forces multiple centres in and around Melbourne's lockdown postcodes to close. Eight Melbourne childcare...
