Child Care News
Goodstart Early Learning removes public holiday fees, adds extra charges
The Courier Mail - Michelle Collins - December 17, 2019The country’s largest not-for-profit child care operator, Goodstart Early Learning, is facing a backlash from families after removing fees for public holidays. Instead, it is increasing fees by $3 a day to cover the rent and pay staff. It is a long-held practice in the child care sector that parents pay...
Spike in childcare centre gastro outbreaks prompts NSW Health warning
The Sydney Morning Herald - Rachel Clun - December 17, 2019Almost 550 children have fallen ill with gastro in December after an unseasonal spate of outbreaks at childcare centres around the state. There have been 86 gastroenteritis outbreaks at childcare centres so far this month, almost four times the five year average of 22 outbreaks for the...
Sydney parents search for answers more than a year after 16-month-old Arianna died at childcare
ABC News - Julia Baird - December 17, 2019There is a kind of grief that claws at your insides, constantly, without subsiding. And it is this grief Jozef Maragol and his wife Anet Eyvazians say has shattered them. All they are sure of is that they dropped off a smiling little girl at her childcare centre on the morning of August 24, 2018...
Kozy Kids Maylands to be demolished for $98m Portrush Road upgrade
7 News - Elise Baker - December 17, 2019Parents have told 7NEWS they are devastated an Adelaide childcare centre will be demolished to make way for a major road upgrade. Hundreds of children will have to find alternative care when the property is compulsorily acquired by the state government. Parents of children...
Gumnut childcare donates food and hygiene products to local firies
Lithgow Mercury - December 17, 2019Gumnut childcare have been collecting food and hygienic products for the local RFS volunteers who have been spending their time fighting fires. The educators and children of Gumnut were pleased to be able to handover a large quantity of products to the Wallerawang/Lidsdale RFS...
The ten biggest ECEC news stories of 2019 – The year in review
The Sector - Jason Roberts - December 17, 2019As we approach the end of the year, it has become a tradition at The Sector to conduct a year in review, and reminisce about the biggest early childhood education and care (ECEC) news stories of the year. When thinking back on the year that was, we arrived with a shortlist of 20, which has been...
2020 – Time for a pedagogical reboot?
The Sector - Karen Hope - December 2019The early childhood care and education (ECEC) workforce often places the welfare and needs of others above their own. Unique in its position as a profession where relationship building and firing up children’s neurons is a daily key performance indicator, the ECEC sector is a high pressure...
Moree preschools and daycare centres to receive drought support
Moree Champion - December 16, 2019Moree preschools and daycare centres will share in tens of thousands of dollars, as part of one-off drought relief funding from the state government. Aussie Kids of Moree, Goodstart Early Learning Moree and Gwydir Day Care and Preschool will each receive $21,000; Grace Lutheran Pre-School...
School, residents rally against childcare centre expansion
The Daily Telegraph - David Barwell, North Shore Times - December 16, 2019The principal and parents of a north shore primary school have taken aim at expansion plans by a nearby childcare centre amid concerns over safety and traffic impacts on students. Beaumont Road Public School principal Malcolm McDonald has raised a string of objections to a proposal...
Juice Technologies seeks clearance to acquire APT Childcare
Mirage News - December 16, 2019The Commerce Commission has received a clearance application from Juice Technologies Pty Limited to acquire APT Business Solutions Limited, trading as APT Childcare. Juice Technologies operates in New Zealand through its wholly owned subsidiary, Infocare Systems Limited...
KU opens AMEP centre in NSW Hunter Region to support migrant and refugee families
The Sector - Freya Lucas - December 16, 2019KU Children’s Services have opened a new childcare centre in the New South Wales Hunter region, designed to support migrant and refugee families who are learning English. The KU Mayfield AMEP Child Care Centre is located in Mayfield, Newcastle, and provides childcare to families...
Childcare subsidy payment blunder leaves families in financial limbo
Herald Sun - Matt Johnston and James Campbell - December 15, 2019Mums and dads have been wrongly ordered to pay back up to $5000 in childcare subsidy payments while thousands remain in financial limbo as a new rebate system causes chaos. Outraged families have slammed Centrelink after they were told they had been overpaid the federal government subsidy...
Early childhood services ‘just babysitters’ with many failing standards in NSW
The Daily Telegraph - Clare Masters, News Corp Australia Network - December 15, 2019Exclusive: Early childhood education is such a lottery that one in five services are not meeting quality standards and one expert says many childcare centres are just “babysitting” children. Former chair of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Advisory Authority (ACARA) Professor...
Is Mayfield Childcare Limited's (ASX:MFD) CEO Pay Fair?
Yahoo Finance - Simply Wall Street - December 15, 2019Dean Clarke has been the CEO of Mayfield Childcare Limited (ASX:MFD) since 2016. First, this article will compare CEO compensation with compensation at similar sized companies. After that, we will consider the growth in the business. And finally we will reflect on how common stockholders...
Mia knew 'something had to give' on work-life balance, she's not alone
The Sydney Morning Herald - Wendy Tuohy - December 15, 2019It was mid-afternoon on a Friday when full-time worker and mother of two, Mia Greves, realised "something probably had to give". She took off from work to retrieve her little girl, Georgia, now five, from childcare and take her to dance class before returning Georgia to childcare and...
