Child Care News
Childcare costs surge forcing Sydney parents to pay up to $200 a day
The Daily Telegraph - Danielle Le Messurier - February 7, 2019Red-tape, soaring lease costs and staff-child ratios have pushed childcare prices through the roof in Sydney where some families are paying as much as a staggering $200 a day. The latest figures showing Sydney parents are paying the highest costs in Australia has prompted NSW’s...
Parents pressured by soaring childcare costs
9News.com.au - February 7, 20199News reporter Gabrielle Boyle is in Sydney, where parents are paying up to $200 a day to put through kids through early childcare...
Oversupply of childcare centres may be subsiding
Sydney Morning Herald - Simon Johanson - February 6, 2019A national oversupply of childcare centres that dogged the industry last year – sparked by dramatic growth and uncertainty over changes to government subsidies – may be subsiding, analysts say. Childcare operators and industry groups, such as the country's second biggest operator...
Calls to review planning and approval process of childcare centres in high-rise buildings
The Daily Telegraph - Danielle Le Messurier - February 5, 2019Childcare centres - some with hundreds of children and babies - located in high-rise buildings have been described as a “ticking time bomb” amid concerns over “hazardous” evacuation plans. The Daily Telegraph can reveal there are urgent calls for the NSW government to review...
Why these 3 ASX 200 stocks just hit 52-week highs
Motley Fool - Cale Kalinowski - February 5, 2019G8 Education shares hit a 52-week high today of $3.44. As Australia’s largest listed child care centre operator, G8 owns and operates more than 470 early learning education centres around Australia. After a terrible period for investors in late 2017 and most of 2018, G8 has managed...
Former Maitland teacher Kylie Humphreys founds Head and Heart Mindfulness for preschool and primary
Maitland Mercury - Sage Swinton - February 5, 2019To some, the thought of preschoolers doing yoga and meditation might sound far-fetched. But for Maitland’s Kylie Humphreys it’s not only possible, it’s vital to improve their mental health and wellbeing. Ms Humphreys has founded Head and Heart Mindfulness – a program for kids...
We need an overhaul of early childhood education
Newcastle Herald - Phillip O'Neill - February 4, 2019Yet Australian studies show, consistently, that, while Australian parents are working as long and hard at parenting as anywhere else in the world, Australian governments lack commitment to the provision of education services in the early childhood years. Embarrassingly, Australia is fifth...
Chifley Oration: Bowen, Labor says Coalition government ‘not working for working people’
News.com.au - Malcolm Farr - February 4, 2019Chris Bowen will claim the real danger was lower standards of living under a returned Coalition government and growing debt as households had to dip into savings. He will point to rising expenses since the Coalition was elected in 2013: electricity prices up 15 per cent, the cost of long-day childcare up 24 per cent...
Land squeeze puts pressure on QEII after-hours school care centre
Perth Now - Regina Titelus - February 4, 2019An after-hours school care centre is at risk of shutting its doors and forcing 150 families to vie for alternative childcare services that are already stretched. The facility at the QEII Medical Centre site, which caters specifically for healthcare workers in the precinct, has lost its playground space...
Liquidator lawsuits for Queensland Maintenance Services settle after multimillion-dollar claims
The Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - February 4, 2019A KEY contractor for fallen childcare operator ABC Learning has settled multimillion-dollar lawsuits from liquidators, and is now pursuing his former lawyer and friend for allegedly flawed elements of his defence. Frank Zullo ran Queensland Maintenance Services (QMS)...
Brokers name 3 ASX shares to buy next week
Motley Fool - James Mickleboro - February 3, 2019G8 Education Ltd (ASX: GEM) - Analysts at Morgan Stanley have retained their overweight rating and lifted the price target on this childcare centre operator’s shares to $4.00. According to the note, the broker believes that long-term demand for childcare services will be supported...
'A bad idea': the perils of starting school too early then repeating
Sydney Morning Herald - Jordan Baker & Sarah Keoghan - February 3, 2019"I know of parents who have sent their children to kindergarten early because it's cheaper than long day care or preschool with the view of repeating them," he wrote in the book. "This is a bad idea and should be avoided." Research suggests that students who repeated a year...
The care of our young, elderly and disabled is increasingly reliant on overseas-born workers
Sydney Morning Herald - Matt Wade & Ben Weir - February 3, 2019The care of Australia’s young, elderly and disabled is increasingly reliant on migrant workers. New research has revealed overseas-born employees are providing a growing share of frontline services in childcare, aged and disability care and personal home-based assistance...
EXCLUSIVE: Education Department spends tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on advertising
9News.com.au - Fiona Willan - February 2, 2019Another blogger, Fat Mum Slim, wrote "News alert guys, school is back...Under this new package, child care is going to be more affaordable for more families"...in a post "brought to you by the Department of Education and Training". They were among a handful of social media influencers...
Canberrans are paying the highest childcare rates in the country
Canberra Times - Cassandra Morgan - February 1, 2019Canberrans are paying the highest rates in the country to send their children to childcare, despite also having what appear to be the riskiest services in the country, according to new data. A report by the Productivity Commission released on Friday found that ACT residents...
