Child Care News
La Creche on the Avenue temporarily closes under financial pressure from COVID-19
NT News - April 14, 2020A Darwin child care operator who spoke out about the challenges facing the industry in the COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily closed down. La Creche on the Avenue posted on social media today the centre had closed but were hoping to reopen next week. Director...
Proposal for 115-capacity childcare centre on Beaudesert Rd at Moorooka lodged with council
The Courier Mail - Alex Treacy, Quest Newspapers - April 14, 2020A development application has been lodged with Brisbane City Council to build a childcare centre at Moorooka to cater for up to 115 children. The DA is for 105, 107, and 111 Beaudesert Rd, and 78 Durack St, Moorooka. The site currently houses two pre-1946 dwellings, one of which...
CCSA welcomes NSW free preschool announcement, pleased preschool is recognised
The Sector - Freya Lucas - April 14, 2020Community Connections Solutions Australia (CCSA), a peak organisation representing early childhood services in rural and remote communities across New South Wales, has welcomed the announcement last week that the NSW Government will provide free preschool for...
Shares rise after Gold Coast childcare giant G8 Education raises $227M from investors
Gold Coast Bulletin - Alister Thomson - April 14, 2020Shares in Gold Coast-based childcare giant G8 Education are trading slightly up in the first session since raising $227 million from investors to support the operation of its 475 centres. The company announced this morning it had completed the institutional placement and entitlement...
Coronavirus: Parents and providers despair amid confusion over new childcare rules
The Canberra Times - Steve Evans - April 14, 2020Parents and childcare providers have voiced their despair at the confusion over new rules to keep the system running in the face of the coronavirus crisis...
Speed, risk 'played hand' in G8's chunky placement
Financial Review - Liam Walsh - April 14, 2020G8 Education is placing a massive chunk of shares in a new institutional placement, with the childcare giant arguing that risks surrounding raising cash and speed helped drive the decision. Gold Coast-based G8, which has 475 Australian centres under brands including Sandcastles and ...
Acquisition of 5 childcare centres in ACT
Financial Review - April 14, 2020Acquisition of 5 childcare centres in ACT, Australia: On 9 December 2019, listed New Zealand and Australian childcare and education centre operator Evolve Education Group Limited (NZX/ASX: EVO) announced the proposed acquisition of five childcare centres in the ACT...
Bayside child care centres faced $440,000 loss before State Government rescue
St George & Sutherland Shire Leader - Jim Gainsford - April 14, 2020Bayside Council has narrowly avoided a potential revenue loss of almost half-a-million dollars from its child care centres. Mayor Joe Awada acknowledged that as a result of the new Federal Government funding plan for Child Care Centres, there was be a potential loss of revenue...
Coronavirus QLD: Early Birds Jimboomba Education and Childcare confirms virus case
The Courier Mail - Shiloh Payne - April 14, 2020A Logan child care centre has temporarily closed after families were told that a confirmed coronavirus case had attended the facility on four occasions. Queensland Health emailed staff, parents and carers of Early Birds Jimboomba Education and Childcare confirming the news ...
Little Scholars founder Jae Fraser reveals struggle facing industry
Gold Coast Bulletin - Ann Wason Moore - April 12, 2020Queensland’s Little Scholars founder and managing director Jae Fraser, who has five centres on the Gold Coast, says the Federal Government’s free childcare lifeline has turned out to be tangled, and the industry is on life support. Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week revealed...
Melbourne City Mission childcare centres ineligible for Jobseeker subsidy
Herald Sun - Anthony Piovesan, Whittlesea Leader - April 12, 2020Melbourne City Mission childcare centres are set to lose $260,000 every four weeks and $1.5 million across six months after the Federal Government made the vital service free for all Australians. Under the plan announced this week, the government would pay half of the sector’s fee ...
Nine council-run childcare centres open, facing massive revenue shortfall
Herald Sun - Chad Van Estrop, Geelong Advertiser - April 12, 2020Nine council-run child care centres in Greater Geelong and the Surf Coast remain open despite facing a 50 per cent revenue shortfall. Spring St and Canberra are in a stand off about whose responsibility it is to make up the shortfall at centres where staff are ineligible for Federal wage...
The corona childhood: what have our kids lost in the lockdown?
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jacqueline Maley - April 12, 2020While the political debate around children has focused on what to do about their formal education, what else have our children lost? How can you ever make up for a missed Schoolies week, a cancelled AFL or ballet season, or the abrupt cessation of face-to-face peer contact ...
COVID-19 highlights underfunding of Indigenous child care centres
NITV - Madeline Hayman-Reber - April 12, 2020Not-for-profit Indigenous community childcare centres say they have been left out of the conversation when it comes to the federal governments COVID-19 free daycare promise, and that it has in fact highlighted ongoing funding issues. As parents have begun working from home ...
Coronavirus and children: get the facts from the Australian Academy of Science
Bendigo Advertiser - April 12, 2020In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak there were only a handful of children who tested positive and those that were escaped the worst of the symptoms. Recent stories have highlighted cases of children dying or suffering from severe symptoms, including those who had ...
