Child Care News
Musical family uses hip hop to teach children about same-sex marriage and mental health
ABC News - Gian De Poloni - March 3, 2019A Perth musical couple are using hip hop to discuss same-sex marriage, rainbow families and mental health with preschool children. Rapper Gajan Maheson, songwriter Ajana Gajan, and their four-year-old daughter Nikita have recorded and performed together as The Cuddly Koalas...
Sydney Metro coordinates drilling with nap time for local childcare centre
Sydney Morning Herald - Sarah Keoghan - March 1, 2019As any parent would know, there are few things small children find as stressful as sleep deprivation. So when Sydney Metro announced it would be drilling the new Barangaroo station 300 metres away from the KU Lance Children's Centre at Millers Point, worried staff raised concerns...
NSW government responds to Labor's free TAFE offering with own economy boom plan
The Leader - Eva Kolimar - March 1, 2019Less than a week since the opposition announced it would make good on a pre-election promise to offer free TAFE courses in skills shortage industries, the Liberal government has fired back with its own plan. The NSW government says it will deliver an additional 100,000 free course...
Female executives won’t break glass ceiling until 2100
PerthNow - Rhianna Mitchell - March 1, 2019The report found that employer-funded paid parental leave, equal female board representation, on-site child care and flexible work arrangements were pivotal in keeping mothers in the workforce. Male-dominated industries including mining, manufacturing and transport recorded...
NSW preschool helps PNG communities while learning about their culture
The Sector - Lyndsie Clarke - March 1, 2019Pambula Preschool, located in New South Wales’ Bega Valley, is collecting education supplies for new kindergartens in Papua New Guinea while also incorporating learning about the culture into classroom programs, according to local news source About Regional...
Lawyer X childcare centre gong: Police informer received Premier’s volunteer award
Herald Sun - Anthony Dowslet and Patrick Carlyon - March 1, 2019Weeks before the State Government called a royal commission into the scandal over Lawyer X, the barrister received a Premier’s volunteer award for saving a childcare centre. It can also be revealed the lawyer whom police recruited to inform on gangland clients, possibly tainting dozens...
Schools, creches, charities ordered to get insured for child abuse compensation
Sydney Morning Herald - Benjamin Preiss - February 27, 2019Thousands of child care providers, private schools and welfare services that work with children have been warned they must have proper insurance in place so they can be sued for child abuse. The organisations have also been told they must have appropriate legal structures established...
Health Minister Brad Hazzard orders department to ‘hit urgency button’ on vaccination ‘loophole’
The Daily Telegraph - Danielle Le Messurier - February 27, 2019Health Minister Brad Hazzard has ordered NSW Health to “hit the urgency button” and ram through regulatory changes to close a “loophole” allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to attend childcare without being vaccinated. A spokeswoman for NSW Health previously...
Big Fat Smile CEO leads national learning campaign targeting 24 key marginal seats
Illawarra Mercury - Argon Latifi - February 27, 2019The nation’s leading early learning and care providers have united for the first time to campaign for children ahead of the Federal Election. And an Illawarra early education leader is leading the charge in calling on the major parties to fund two years of access to high quality early learning...
Perth family demand apology after son suffers head injury while at daycare
WA Today - February 27, 2019A Perth mother is calling for a daycare centre to apologise after her baby son suffered a head injury while in their care earlier this week. According to Nine News Perth, Darlene Cox was picking up her one-year-old son and four-year-old daughter up from a childcare in Perth's northern...
Childcare Provider Underpins Augusta Investment Offering
Scoop NZ - February 27, 2019The anchor tenant is Creche & Kindergarten Association (C&K) Childcare which was established in 1907. “It currently has around 400 childcare centres, making it one of Queensland’s largest not-for-profit early childhood education providers,” says Barnett...
Think confirms jump in quality ratings and new strategic initiative in 2018 results
The Sector - Jason Roberts - February 27, 2019Following reassessment of 24 of its early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, Think Childcare Limited has confirmed in its 2018 full year results presentation a significant improvement in overall quality ratings, with the Group now having a total of 82 per cent of their services...
Camden Community Early Learning Centre to close by end of the week, leaving staff jobless and parents without childcare
The Advertiser - Anthony Johnson - February 27, 2019Camden Community Early Learning Centre staff were advised on Tuesday that they will no longer have a job as of Friday - with parents now left without childcare as of next week. The centre, in Carlisle St in Camden Park, will shut it doors on Friday after serving the community...
Sunshine Coast kids learning to live with canine pals
Noosa News - February 27, 2019CHILDREN in child care from Eumundi through to Peregian Springs could soon be learning the Pet Education for Kids program, which is designed to help reduce dog bite injuries by helping them interact with dogs safely. Sunshine Coast Council is offering local child care centres its Pet...
Government to close vaccination loophole allowing indigenous kids into childcare without proof
The Daily Telegraph - Danielle Le Messurier - February 26, 2019An "inconsistency" in the law which allows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to attend childcare indefinitely without being vaccinated will be addressed, the NSW government has vowed. The Daily Telegraph can reveal the state’s peak body for childcare...
