Child Care News
Worst immunisation rates in Victoria revealed
Herald Sun - Alanah Frost - January 28, 2020Victoria has the best immunisation rate in Australia, new data shows. But some areas are still at rates below 90 per cent, with the Southern Grampians recording a rate of 85.37 per cent, figures from the Australian Immunisation Register have revealed. A record 95.4% of Victorian kids ...
How education program AllPlayTM Learn helps children with disability, development challenges back to school
Geelong Advertiser - Andrew Jefferson - January 28, 2020As Geelong families get ready for the return to school, a new free and evidence-based resource is helping ease the transition for the one in five children with a disability or developmental challenge. Deakin’s innovative AllPlay Learn program — a partnership with the Victorian...
Health officials provide advice on return back to school amid coronavirus concerns
News.com.au - Stephanie Bedo - January 27, 2020NSW health officials have warned any children who have been in contact with someone with coronavirus should not return to school tomorrow. They also say that any child who has been to the Hubei province in China should get checked immediately for signs of the deadly infection...
Childcare centre failed to pay workers for a year
The Australian - Ewin Hannan - January 27, 2020A Sydney childcare operator has been ordered to pay $54,752 to two migrant workers who were not paid for an entire year under the guise of “unpaid work experience”. The Federal Circuit Court ordered Jan Shang, who owns and operates the Joys Child Care centre in Parramatta...
'Cinderella' childcare sector seeks leg-up
The Sydney Morning Herald - Madeleine Heffernan - January 26, 2020It's long been called the 'Cinderella' of care services for its invisibility, low status and poor work conditions. Now the fast-growing, outside-school-hours care sector - which provides before and after-school care and holiday care for children mostly in primary school - wants better staffing...
MIA FREEDMAN: We need to talk about how our school holiday system is broken.
Mamamia - Mia Freedman - January 26, 2020“Why aren’t people marching in the street?” a girlfriend asks me recently, her voice a strangled mix of despair and disbelief. With her eldest child due to start school next week, she is shocked by what she’s being asked to do and she can’t comprehend why there hasn’t been an uprising ...
The 'infuriating' rule that penalises breadwinner mums and stay-at-home dads
The Sydney Morning Herald - Caitlin Fitzsimmons - January 26, 2020The growing number of breadwinner mothers and stay-at-home fathers has exposed an inequality at the heart of the government’s paid parental leave scheme. Eligibility for the government’s 18-week Parental Leave Pay is tied to the birth mother’s income. If the birth mother earns less...
An Intrinsic Calculation For Think Childcare Limited (ASX:TNK) Suggests It's 40% Undervalued
Yahoo Finance - Simply Wall St - January 24, 2020Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Think Childcare Limited (ASX:TNK) by taking the expected future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. I will use the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. Don't get put off by the jargon, the math ...
'I need nature, I need space': high-rise families rely on child-friendly neighbourhoods
Architecture & Design - Elyse Warner and Fiona Andrews - January 24, 2020Children’s living environments in Australian capital cities have changed significantly in the past ten years. This is particularly the case for the growing numbers of families raising children in private, inner-city, high-rise housing. Our study of one such area shows families rely heavily on...
Childcare costs: 'You can't shop around on your kids' lives'
Kidspot - Eliza Cracknell - January 24, 2020The Federal Education Minister advises parents to “shop around and find a childcare provider who is providing value for money” but it's not that simple. I never really understood the significance of the expression ‘putting down roots’, until, when walking with my eldest child down the main street ...
Going back to school while struggling with the bushfires and poor air quality
Insights - Angela Cadena - January 24, 2020With only a couple of days before children around the country are going back to school, there is a general doubt on how communities and schools that were heavily affected by the recent bushfires will cope with the new year. The Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan, said childcare...
Record numbers of Kindergarten children starting school in 2020, Sarah Mitchell says
The Sector - Freya Lucas - January 24, 2020New South Wales Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said that the state is experiencing a “once in a generation” enrolment spike, with 71,000 children starting Kindergarten in 2020. “For more than 30 years, student numbers have been relatively stable in public schools across the state...
Governments to review fire regulations for multistory ECEC settings, ACA NSW says
The Sector - Freya Lucas - January 24, 2020The New South Wales Branch of the Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) has advised its members that the Federal and State Governments have taken feedback about the proposed changes to the 2019 National Construction Code (NCC) with respect to Early Childhood Centres...
Increasing childcare fees sparks concern in Shepparton
Shepparton News - Ed McLeish - January 23, 2020Shepparton parents could face higher childcare fees soon. The Department of Education’s September quarter 2019 report showed the average hourly fee across all childcare types was $9.90, reflecting an increase of 4.6 per cent since the September quarter 2018...
Name change could mislead public: AMA
AJP.com.au - Megan Haggan - January 23, 2020The AMA has slammed a political party that wants to change its name to the Informed Medical Options Party, as the Guild underlines the importance of vaccination. Among its objectives, the Party lists amending NSW and Victorian laws to include conscientious objection...
