Child Care News
What to Consider If You Have Your Kids' Grandparents Living at Home Right Now
Popsuagr - Kate Schweitzer - March 19, 2020For many families, it's hard enough to distance themselves from friends and neighbours, but for those who have grandparents or other elderly relatives living in the same home, the challenges are even greater. And although some believe that those in the same home are exposed...
Childcare sector proposes 'scaled-back' care to survive coronavirus
Sydney Morning Herald - Judith Ireland - March 18, 2020Daycare operators say childcare centres should be allowed to stay open with reduced numbers, even if there is widespread lock-down in response to coronavirus, to support parents who work in frontline areas like healthcare and emergency services and cannot care...
Childcare should stay open so parents can work and boost the economy, says operator
The Australian - Gerard Cockburn - March 18, 2020Think Childcare says its centres are staying open for “hard working Australians” who will brave the workplace despite large scale economic shutdowns induced by the coronavirus pandemic. Following Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Wednesday morning speech in Canberra...
Costa, Downer, Link, G8 face debt stress: UBS
The Australian - Michael Roddan - March 18, 2020Fruit and vegetable group Costa, childcare provider G8 Education, services company Downer and superannuation fund administrator Link Group have been named by investment bank UBS as some of the companies under threat of debt stress amid the coronavirus pandemic...
'We are all high risk and terrified:' WA teachers' families speak out
WA Today - Emma Young - March 18, 2020On the other hand, worry is skyrocketing around what working means for at-risk older teachers, with 30 per cent of Australian teachers aged 50-plus and one in five WA schoolteachers reportedly over 60. The risk of dying if infected with COVID-19 rises to 3.6 per cent...
Children believed at risk of coronavirus after Brisbane child care centre worker tests positive
7News - Warren Barnsley - March 18, 2020Children who attend a Brisbane early learning centre may have been exposed to coronavirus after a staff member tested positive for the disease. The female staff member at Sparrow Early Learning in Karana Downs in Brisbane’s west is one of the 94 coronavirus cases in Queensland...
China what? Bankers test Modern Star carve-up
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd - March 18, 2020The childcare and schools resources supplier has operations in Australia, New Zealand and China. Prior to the coronavirus, the sale process had been ticking along nicely, with second round bids lodged before Christmas and interest coming from the likes of Japan's Marubeni...
Handbag full of cash that pointed police to the husband of alleged childcare fraudster
Sydney Morning Herald - Lucy Cormack - March 18, 2020A man has been charged for allegedly claiming almost $100,000 in false childcare subsidy payments, less than a year after his wife was charged with operating a fraudulent day-care centre from their family home. Ahmad Abbas, 33, was arrested about 6.30am on Wednesday...
Melbourne childcare centre stays open despite parents testing positive to COVID-19
The Age - Melissa Cunningham - March 18, 2020A childcare centre in Melbourne’s north-east is remaining open despite both parents of a child who attends testing positive to coronavirus. Chief executive of the Guardian Childcare and Education Centre, Warren Bright, sent out a letter on Tuesday informing all families that ...
COVID-19: what closing schools and childcare centres would mean for parents and casual staff
The Conversation - Patrick Pleul - March 17, 2020Several schools in Australia have closed after some students and teachers tested positive for COVID-19. Meanwhile, some independent schools have sent all students home pre-emptively, without any infections being detected. Classes will now be done online...
School closures must be accompanied by childcare for critical workers: Unions
The Examiner - Frances Vinall - March 17, 2020Any decision to close schools must be accompanied by measures to support parents working in critical jobs, unions say. Australian Nursing and Midwives Federation Tasmanian branch secretary Emily Shepherd said the union supported school closures - but that measures for...
Here’s why Australian schools remain open despite new coronavirus bans
The New Daily - Samantha Dick - March 17, 2020Even though COVID-19 is not rapidly spreading through our communities just yet, some have suggested it would be wise to shut down schools as a “precaution”. But shutting down schools can cause other problems, like childcare issues. In most Australian families, it is common for...
Coronavirus Australia: Why women will feel the impact more than men
7News.com.au - Kelly Burke - March 17, 2020In Australia, 79.9 per cent of those working in the healthcare and social assistance sectors are women. Women are more vulnerable to COVID-19 due to their economic insecurity, their over-representation in certain sectors of the economy, their caring responsibilities, and the feminisation...
One of Sydney’s oldest preschools Binnowee Kindergarten turns 85
The Daily Telegraph - Nicole Pierre, Northern District Times - March 17, 2020One of Sydney’s oldest preschools will celebrate an incredible 85 years of learning and fun. Binnowee Kindergarten in West Pennant Hills named after the Aboriginal word meaning “green place” has still kept to its roots since it first opened in 1935. From surrounding gum trees...
Resources for ECEC decision makers on COVID-19 responses
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 17, 2020With developments and changes happening daily as the Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector seeks to respond to, and manage, outcomes from the COVID-19 pandemic, The Sector will collect resources, web links and other important pieces of information...
