Child Care News
Developer syndicate sells Perth shopping centre for $34m
Financial Review - Ingrid Fuary-Wagner - July 31, 2019A syndicate of developers has sold a Coles-anchored neighbourhood shopping centre in Perth's north-western suburb of Alkimos for $34.05 million. Trinity Village has 16 other tenants including a Shell service station, medical centre and childcare centre...
Guthrie St Child Care Centre kids learn first aid
Shepparton News - Laura Briggs - July 31, 2019Children at the Guthrie St Child Care Centre returned home with first aid at the forefront of their minds following a hands-on safety session. Having learnt a range of the basics throughout the session hosted by Cool Kids First Aid, the four and five-year-old children...
Tenterfield rain dance implores the skies to open
Tenterfield Star - Donna Ward - July 31, 2019Councillors led by Mayor Peter Petty led the community in a rain dance to hopefully bring on some drought-breaking rain. Fortunately they were aided by a much cuter dance troupe in the form of youngsters from Tenterfield Child Care Centre, who dropped in to lend their support...
VCAT knocks back childcare bid
Star Weekly - Alesha Capone - July 30, 2019A proposal to develop a childcare centre on land adjacent to the heritage-listed former shire hall in Werribee has been rejected by VCAT. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal issued its decision on the proposal earlier this month, after the developers appealed ...
Working mothers more stressed than fathers as cost of child care skyrockets, HILDA survey shows
ABC News - Laura Garty and Mary Lloyd - July 31, 2019As more mothers struggle to balance professional work and manage work-family tension, the cost of child care has more than doubled over the past two decades. The latest annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey found the median cost of child care...
Sydney day care children sent home ‘immediately’ over discovery of highly toxic substance on site
News.com.au - Megan Palin - July 31, 2019A Sydney day care centre has abruptly shut down with children sent home “immediately” after a highly toxic substance that causes serious health complications was detected on site. One Tree Little Diggers, a facility for children from military families at the Holsworthy barracks...
With average rates at $152 a day, it's time to make childcare tax deductible
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jane Buncle - July 30, 2019The RBA Governor’s call for stimulus signals that now is the time to consider further policy measures to boost Australia’s labour force. One such measure would be to make the cost of child care tax deductible. The latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey...
Triguboff’s towering ambition: Plans for ‘tallest residential skyscraper’
The Daily Telegraph - Jake McCallum, Parramatta Advertiser - July 30, 2019A bid to see two massive skyscrapers, 57 and 66 storeys high, built in Parramatta, will be determined by a NSW Planning Panel this week, after Parramatta Council gave planners the green light. The proposal would also include a childcare centre, commercial gym and ...
North shore homes to be turned into 195 units
The Daily Telegraph - David Barwell, North Shore Times - July 30, 2019A strip of 15 homes will be turned into 195 units under major development plans for a ‘super lot’ backing on to the former Channel 9 studios at Willoughby. The developer said there were adequate amenities to support residential growth, including a new childcare centre planned...
Edgars Creek centre to get kindergarten and maternal health rooms
Herald Sun - Margot Taylor, Whittlesea Leader - July 30, 2019Health and childcare will be the focus of Edgar Creek’s community centre. Work has begun on Wollert’s long-awaited $6.5 million Whittlesea council and State Government funded community centre. Once built, it will include a kindergarten, maternal health rooms and a 100-person hall...
Dubbo residents speak out, their fight for speed bumps and zones to be implemented near a local preschool is not over
Daily Liberal - Taylor Dodge - July 30, 2019In 2016 residents raised concerns regarding the speed of vehicles travelling past Dubbo's Peppercorn Childcare Centre. Three years later, residents say their fears have been ignored. Several community members petitioned for the implementation of speed bumps near the preschool...
Latest HILDA report yields key insights into how Australian parents engage with ECEC
The Sector - Jason Roberts - July 30, 2019The Department of Social Services have released the 2019 findings from their annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) in which considerable emphasis is placed on the topic of paid child care in particular the use of care, the factors that ...
HILDA findings on Australian families' experience of childcare should be a call-to-arms for government
The Conversation - Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne - July 30, 2019Australian parents are disadvantaged by a lack of affordable childcare, with childcare costs rising by about 145% in real terms since 2002, the latest HILDA study reveals. Childcare costs have more than doubled since 2002. The annual survey found the majority of Australian parents...
Businessman David Burke to stand trial on charges of misleading ASIC over G8 Education takeover bid
Gold Coast Bulletin - Kathleen Skene - July 29, 2019A businessman linked to a failed takeover by listed childcare giant G8 Education has been committed to stand trial accused of giving misleading statements to the corporate regulator. David Justin Burke, 60, was charged last April with charged with five counts of giving false...
Daycare 'no longer fit for use' to close after $400,000 quote for repairs
The Daily Telegraph - Joanna Panagopoulos, Inner West Courier - July 29, 2019A Homebush West daycare centre will shut its doors permanently after an inspection revealed it was 'no longer fit for use', requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of repairs. While the decision to close the facility on December 20 was made as the not-for-profit preschool...
