Child Care News
Navis Capital to study buyer interest in $700m-plus education company
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald - March 7, 2019Pan-Asian buyout firm Navis Capital is readying its Australian education resources business Modern Star for sale. Street Talk understands Navis Capital's local team has started talking to investment banks and boutique advisory firms, seeking their ideas on how to pitch...
One year on, has the game been lifted?: In conversation with Deborah Brennan
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 7, 2019Senior officials from Australian states and territories asked for evidence of the value of early learning and the difference it makes to the educational trajectory of children’s lives. The resulting report, Lifting our Game; Report of the Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian...
No class war but business will still pay
Financial Review - Jennifer Hewett - March 6, 2019But none of that will dissuade most households from feeling they are going backwards when the cost of services, including childcare and power bills, is increasing faster than inflation. "On one hand, you have rising living costs tightening family budgets and on the other hand...
New research shows quality early childhood education reduces need for later special ed
The Conversation - David Philpott - March 5, 2019If a formula existed for giving children something that reduced the need for, or intensity of, later special education that can be both emotionally and financially costly, wouldn’t it be excellent? Such a formula does exist. It’s called quality early childhood education...
Bill Shorten to make the election a 'referendum on wages
Financial Review - Phillip Coorey - March 5, 2019Labor has already promised to restore weekend penalty rates, crack down on sham contracting and labour hire, and reintroduce pattern bargaining in low-paid sectors such as cleaning and childcare. Mr Morrison said pattern bargaining would "take us back to the dark ages...
Design and implementation of the Child Care Package
Australian National Audit OfficeThe objective of the ANAO audit is to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Education and Training's design and implementation of the Child Care Package...
Goodstart appoints Chief Experience Officer
The Sector - Lyndsie Clark - March 5, 2019Tracey McFarland has been appointed to Goodstart Early Learning as Chief Experience Officer and will help shape the organisation's future direction by leading the organisation’s corporate affairs, marketing, communications and customer experience teams...
ATO issues business benchmarks to support ECEC services to "swim between the flags"
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 5, 2019The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released updated benchmark data to support small businesses, including early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, to compare their financial performance with that of their competitors, and "swim between the flags"...
Childcare in Heathmont could boom with two potential centres on the horizon
Herald Sun - Kiel Egging, - March 5, 2019Heathmont could be set for a childcare boom with an abandoned car wash and vacant church possibly making way for new centres. Maroondah Council has received an application for a double-storey childcare centre at the old Clean Zone car wash site at 208-210 Canterbury Rd...
Labor promises $500 million to fund early learning for all 3-year-olds
Sydney Morning Herald - Esther Han - March 4, 2019NSW Labor has promised to extend early childhood education funding to every three-year-old as part of its "historic" $500 million funding package if it wins the state election. Opposition leader Michael Daley on Monday said Labor, together with their federal counterparts...
Community effort to remove barriers and promote the importance of early education
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 4, 2019Early childhood education and care (ECEC) providers and local service organisations have banded together in Moree, a large regional town in Northern New South Wales, to promote the value of early childhood education, and to address some of the barriers experienced by parents...
Child care boss’s mammoth payday, while you fork out more
The Courier Mail - Matthew Killoran - March 4, 2019WHILE parents scrape together the cash to send their children to child care, the boss of one of the industry’s biggest providers has just accepted a $100,000 pay rise. From January 1, Gold Coast-based G8 Education’s CEO Gary Carroll salary reached $840,000, including superannuation...
The fear of getting it wrong is holding some educators back”: tackling tokenism in ECEC
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 4, 2019The Victorian Inclusion Agency, led by the Community Child Care Association in partnership with Yooralla and KU Children’s Services, has recently released a series of nine videos for educators, accompanied by reflective questions to use on an individual level or in staff meetings...
G8 Education CEO says spending boost will attract parents
Financial Review - Simon Evans - March 3, 2019The chief executive of Australia's biggest ASX-listed childcare group, G8 Education, says the company will be able to open between 15 to 20 new centres annually for the next few years without cannibalising any of its existing 502-strong network. Gary Carroll...
Kelly O'Dwyer and Kate Ellis showing women can be mothers and serve in Parliament
ABC News - Jane Norman - March 3, 2019But the loss of two modern trailblazers, both in their early 40s and both with young children, sends a signal that perhaps we still have a long way to go. Since entering Parliament all those years ago, Kate Ellis has witnessed material change; a drinking hole was shut down...
