Child Care News
June quarterly childcare attendance slows according to DET report
The Sector - Jason Roberts - February 26, 2019The number of children attending child care services grew by only 0.1 per cent in the June quarter of 2019 according to the latest released of the Department of Education’s Early Childhood and Child Care in Summary. While June typically experiences smaller growth...
G8’s nasty drop puts tilt at Affinity on the shelf
The Australian - Bridget Carter and Scott Murdoch - February 26, 2019The falling share price of childcare group G8 Education has put to bed renewed speculation that the company was interested in buying its major rival. G8 shares had been tracking up towards the $4 mark, the high point in more than a year, which renewed talk that the firm was interested...
Labor's plan to abolish TAFE fees to address skills shortage
The Leader - Eva Kolimar - February 25, 2019The opposition wants to make TAFE course free for more than 600,000 certificate level places in skill shortage courses across the next decade. Starting with child care, disability, aged care, construction, plumbing, and electrical trades, the plan's aim to help people people...
Funding available for ECEC services impacted by extreme weather events
The Sector - Lyndsie Clark - February 25, 2019Early childhood education and care services whose financial viability may have been impacted by recent extreme weather events, particularly in Queensland and Tasmania, are being encouraged to apply for up to $10,000 government grant to help with community recovery...
Rowena flies the flag for regional living
The West Australian - Josh Chiat - February 25, 2019A crippling lack of childcare that left “50 per cent of the workforce” at home was another thing, but the young marketing expert remained positive about living in the community. “I had an 18-month-old and they faced a lot of challenges that the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder do, so no childcare...
Gold Coast childcare company G8 Education reports profit dip and shares dive 11.3 per cent
Gold Coast Bulletin - Kathleen Skene - February 25, 2019SHARES in Gold Coast listed childcare company G8 Education have plunged more than 11.3 per cent, slashing more than $104 million off its value after it reported a drop in full-year profit. G8's net profit fell 14.5 per cent to $79.5 million in calendar 2019 despite revenue increasing 7.7 per cent to $858.2 million...
What Did We Learn From The G8 Education (ASX:GEM) FY18 Report?
Rask Media - Jaz Harrison - February 25, 2019G8 Education is the largest ASX listed childcare provider, it also has a handful of childcare centres in Singapore. At the end of 2018 G8 had more than 500 childcare centres in Australia. G8 Education has used an acquisition strategy to grow the amount of brands it operates...
Children as young as three being tutored for kindy assessment
The Daily Telegraph - Christopher Harris - February 23, 2019Tiger parents who send children as young as three to coaching courses before kindergarten could be crippling their learning development in core school subjects. Experts say although parents think they’re helping, they could be limiting their children’s development...
More kids in child care with new system
SBS News - February 21, 2019More children are in childcare for more hours than the government envisaged under its new subsidy system, initial data shows. Education department officials said while data is only available for the first three months after the changes started in July 2018, the early signs are encouraging...
Push to secure early learning for all 3- and 4-year-olds in NSW
Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Irvine - February 21, 2019Every three- and four-year-old in NSW should get access to high-quality, play-based early learning, regardless of whether they attend pre-school or long daycare, a peak industry group says. Both sides of politics in NSW are set to feel the heat from the Early Learning and Care Council...
A new beginning: let's fund two years of early learning for all kids
Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Irvine - February 21, 2019The aim is to help our kids develop the early foundational learning skills such as paying attention, co-operating with others and problem-solving that are so valuable at school and beyond. Studies have found 22 per cent of Australian children arrive at school lacking these skills...
Kids or jobs: WA’s country childcare crisis
The West Australian - Shannon Verhagen, Daneka Hill and Tom Zaunmayr - February 20, 2019Child care in mining towns is at crisis point as bulging wait lists and struggling service providers leave mums and dads with the prospect of losing their jobs or being forced to move. Families in Kalgoorlie and Port Hedland are being told to register their children before they are even born...
Demountable buildings help childcare centre grow
The West Australian - Shannon Verhagen - February 20, 2019Buildings for a childcare service expansion that will help ease pressure on Kalgoorlie-Boulder families were placed on site yesterday. Trucks arrived at the Goldfields Child Care Centre yesterday morning with demountable buildings for the neighbouring block, which will be the site...
Bambi Kindergarten faces closure after council ‘retracted’ verbal deal
Daily Telegraph - Daniel Zautsen - February 20, 2019Bardia’s Bambi Kindergarten, a community preschool established in 1952, will close on April 29 after its lease with Campbelltown Council expires. The preschool claims a verbal agreement with the council – that the preschool would have a 21-year lease on a minimal fee – wasn’t upheld...
Girl, 4, allegedly forgotten in hot child care bus for two hours
NT News - Will Zwar - February 20, 2019he life of a four-year-old girl was “put at risk” after she was allegedly left in a child care centre’s bus in the Darwin heat for two hours. The girl, allegedly forgotten by staff at the Dripstone Children’s Centre, was discovered by her parents, hot, tired, stressed and on the verge of passing out...
