Child Care News

Qld’s most expensive suburbs for childcare revealed | List
The Courier Mail - Brendan O'Malley - January 27, 2022

Childcare fees in 10 Queensland suburbs topped $135 a day last year with one suburb recording an eye-watering average fee of $146, new data shows. Comparison website Care for Kids revealed the most expensive suburbs for childcare last year, based on data...

Further support for families and the child care sector
Minister's Media Centre - January 27, 2022

The Morrison Government is introducing a range of targeted measures to provide support and certainty to Australian families and the child care sector as they deal with impacts of the COVID-19 Omicron wave. Families will be provided unlimited additional allowable...

Female wages growth lags rising inflation and childcare costs
Financy - January 27, 2022

The cost of childcare has gone up, but wages growth for women remains subdued and this is a big problem for economic equality that needs attention. As it stands most childcare workers are women, and most Mother’s and many families , will evaluate the woman’s...

Matthew Evans, Dirk Long plan to develop new childcare centre in Sippy Downs
The Courier Mail - Kristen Camp - January 27, 2022

Prominent developers Evans Long have revealed their plans for a new, 44-place boutique kindergarten and adjoining health centre to be built in Sippy Downs. The development application was lodged with council on January 18 by Evans Long to establish the 4448sq m...

Drummoyne reservoir to be reborn as childcare centre
Commercial Real Estate - Jenny Brown - January 27, 2022

But with the just-published judgment by the NSW Land and Environment Court to finally allow the heritage-listed concrete and steel plate tank to be repurposed as an early childhood learning centre, the stalled plans for a very unusual education facility in this inner-west...

ACA NSW lobbies for ECEC COVID-19 waivers as Omicron challenges persist
The Sector - Freya Lucas - January 27, 2022

The New South Wales branch of the Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA NSW) has petitioned Sarah Mitchell, NSW Minister for Education and Early Learning, asking her to develop and implement a COVID-19 framework to facilitate temporary waivers for early childhood...

Goodstart teams up with Charter Hall to support vulnerable children
The Sector - Freya Lucas - January 27, 2022

Early childhood REIT, Charter Hall, will donate to Goodstart Early Learning’s Early Learning Fund over the next two years, providing fee relief for up to 55 families in a significant partnership, the first in Australia which sees an early childhood education and care (ECEC)...

Migrant workers must fill childcare shortage, says industry
The Australian - Natasha Bita - January 27, 2022

Migrant workers must be flown to Australia urgently to fill staff shortages in daycare centres and after-school care, the childcare sector has warned the federal government. With one in 13 centres caring for children without the required number of qualified staff, the sector...

Impact of Covid on Fraser Coast child care centres
The Courier Mail - Frances Klein - January 27, 2022

The State Government mandate requiring the vaccination of all education workers has failed to disrupt a solid and growing childcare industry on the Fraser Coast. Childcare providers have faced the same problem as schools of losing staff who failed to comply, after the mandate...

Childcare centre approved for residential land on Kingsway in Landsdale
Perth Now - Tyler Brown - January 27, 2022

A two-storey childcare centre proposed on a site earmarked for residential development in Landsdale has received unanimous approval. The $2.1 million development on a portion of 390 Kingsway would accommodate a maximum of 100 children and 16 staff...

Thousands of NSW children absent from childcare as staff shortages hit record highs
The Sydney Morning Herald - Lucy Carroll and Natassia Chrysanthos - January 26, 2022

About half of NSW children enrolled in major childcare services were absent in the first week of January as staff vacancies reached record highs and COVID-19 forced hundreds of centres to close. The state government confirmed 580,000 rapid antigen tests are being...

Australian Childcare Alliances says an oversupply of centres is hurting the sector
The Courier Mail - Chris Herde - January 26, 2022

It’s one of the hottest property investment sectors in Australia but the childcare industry is at risk of suffering from its own popularity. Australian Childcare Alliance QLD vice president Jae Fraser said there has been an oversupply of Queensland childcare centres...

Daycare costs soar at double inflation rate
The Australian - Natasha Bita - January 25, 2022

Childcare costs soared by a “catastrophic” 6.5 per cent last year as staff shortages and high rents drove fees twice as fast as inflation. Ahead of the Morrison Government’s election-year boost to childcare subsidies, fresh Australian Bureau of Statistics inflation...

Parents share their concerns about sending children to day care during COVID
ABC Everyday - January 25, 2022

When we asked parents of kids under five to share what the latest COVID outbreak has meant for care arrangements, a couple of themes stood out. Parents emailed us about feeling confused, exhausted and worried for their kids who aren't yet eligible to be vaccinated...

Starbright Early Learning Centre approved for Yokine, Summerland Early Learning Centre refused for North Beach
Perth Now - Tyler Brown - January 25, 2022

Two childcare centres proposed in residential areas in the City of Stirling were recently assessed, with one given approval but the other refused. A single-storey Starbright Early Learning Centre proposed at the corner of Wanneroo Road and Cape Street in Yokine was...