Child Care News
Boy, 11, steals childcare van from Kelso centre in overnight joy ride
Townsville Bulletin - Shayla Bulloch - March 1, 2020An 11-year-old boy has been charged for stealing a mini-van from a Kelso childcare centre and taking it on a joy ride through Townsville. Between 11pm and 11.30pm, police allege the boy broke into Goodstart Early Learning Centre at Kelso by smashing a glass door. Townsville police...
Planting healthy habits: Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden rolls out to preschoolers
Good Food - Dani Valent - February 29, 2020"Tip it in," says two-year-old Remy, picking up a dish of cooked, chopped silverbeet and upending it into a bowl of mashed pumpkin. The toddlers attend Clarendon Children's Centre in South Melbourne, a childcare centre and kindergarten that has worked closely with the...
Queensland women earn $270 less a week than men despite asking for raises
Brisbane Times - Lydia Lynch - February 28, 2020Queensland women would have to work an extra 49 days to take home the same salary as their male peers. “A car mechanic and a childcare worker both require similar educational attainments to fulfil their roles and yet a car mechanic is paid twice as much as a childcare worker...
Brisbane developer buys heritage church to house new boutique childcare centre brand
The Courier Mail - Phil Bartsch - February 28, 2020A converted church in Brisbane’s suburban northwest is set to undergo a million-dollar refurbishment and become the launch pad for a new childcare centre brand. The heritage-listed former Enoggera Presbyterian Church and Hall has been acquired by an investment trust...
Think Childcare Limited Earnings Missed Analyst Estimates: Here's What Analysts Are Forecasting Now
Yahoo Finance - Simply Wall Street - February 28, 2020As you might know, Think Childcare Limited (ASX:TNK) recently reported its full-year numbers. Results overall were not great, with earnings of AU$0.035 per share falling drastically short of analyst expectations. Meanwhile revenues hit AU$116m and were slightly better than forecasts...
Two vital new community centres open
Mirage News - February 28, 2020Two new community centres were officially opened in Aintree and Fraser Rise this week, bringing more much-needed kindergarten spaces and making way for additional community programs, maternal and child health services and child care. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews joined...
Walcha Council looks at the needs of our local child carers
Walcha News - Vanessa Arundale - February 28, 2020Walcha Council recently conducted a child care survey following feedback received at the annual community meetings held late last year. "Our community raised concerns regarding potential gaps in Walcha's current child care services at the regional meetings held in November 2019,"...
Childcare to be built as the cornerstone of new community in Ipswich
The Sector - Freya Lucas - February 28, 2020Construction of a new 136 place childcare centre will begin shortly, as part of the first stage of development for a new ‘village hub’ in housing development Waterlea at Walloon, west of the Queensland city of Ipswich. The hub will be located at the entrance to the master planned...
Mallacoota receives $2.5 million for new preschool
The Age - Adam Carey - February 27, 2020Fire-damaged Mallacoota will get a new preschool after the old one was badly damaged in a recent storm, forcing the town's young children to attend a makeshift kindergarten with no toilets or running water. Victorian Education Minister James Merlino pledged on Thursday that...
Think results confirm strong portfolio growth in 2019 with more to come going forward
The Sector - Jason Roberts - February 27, 2020Think Childcare has reaffirmed its commitment to portfolio growth in its 2019 Full Year Results by confirming the addition of a new 17 new centres to the Company, taking the overall portfolio size up to 72 services. The increase was driven by the purchase of 15 operating Nido ...
Australia's coronavirus pandemic plan: mass vaccinations and stadium quarantine
The Guardian - Ben Doherty - February 27, 2020A pandemic could last up to 10 months with 40% of the workforce sidelined by illness or caring for family in worst-case scenario. “The social distancing measures that may be required will have wide-ranging effects, with closure of schools and childcare services, and...
Parents Of Toddlers Left On Child Care Buses Say ‘Something Needs To Change’
10Daily - Eden Gillespie - February 27, 2020One year before a child was found dead on a child care bus in Cairns, another little boy was being rushed to hospital with severe dehydration after he was forgotten inside a different bus on a hot summer day in NSW. That two-year-old boy needed to be hospitalised...
Home Consortium to spin off 'substantial' health and wellness REIT
Financial Review - Larry Schlesinger - February 26, 2020Under the plans, which will be "explored" over the next six months HomeCo will look to create a specialist REIT holding assets like government services, medical centres pharmacies, gyms and childcare centres. We've already got this exposure and believe its highly valuable...
Childcare benchmark
Financial Review - Rebecca Holland - February 26, 2020A new childcare centre in the southern Perth suburb of North Coogee has sold to a syndicate arranged by Perdaman for $7.1 million. Savills Australia's Barney Dear negotiated the off-market sale of 53 Orsino Boulevard, achieving a yield of 6.25 per cent...
States' pandemic playbooks reveal plan to combat COVID-19
Sydney Morning Herald - Kate Aubusson and Melissa Cunningham - February 26, 2020The plans outline a range of "social distancing actions" including home isolation and excluding potentially infected people from work, universities, religious services, sporting activities, childcare or schools. Stadiums could be used for mass quarantine and isolation...
