Child Care News
Tamworth preschools get drought relief package
Northern Daily Leader - Jamieson Murphy - September 27, 2018AS THE economic impacts seep further in to every day life, the NSW government has announced a relief package for 17 of region's preschools. Early childhood educators will split more than $255,000, to help them and the families they serve through the dry time and...
Investor snaps up western Sydney childcare centre
News.com.au - Marissa Georgopoulos - September 27, 2018A BUSY childcare centre set in a suburban hot spot has been snapped up by an investor. The 80-place facility at 20 and 22 Ostend St, South Granville, went under the hammer earlier this month with five registered bidders and sold for $3.18 million. Bringing in a net annual income of $185,000...
Banning giveaways won't stop early learning centres putting business first
ABC News - Liam McNicholas - September 26, 2018Free iPads. Cut-price holidays. Mortgage payment contributions. Free petrol. These are some of the "giveaways" that childcare centres are using to spruik their services: you could be forgiven for thinking enrolment drives have little to do with children's learning and a lot to do with luring...
Building better preschools through NSW government grants
The Leader - Eva Kolimar- September 25, 2018Hundreds of new preschool places will be delivered across NSW thanks to a $6 million grant to improve preschool infrastructure. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Early Childhood Education Sarah Mitchell announced the funding on September 21...
Enoggera residents' joy as Brisbane City Council rejects childcare and unit development
The Courier Mail - Andrea Macleod - September 25, 2018ENOGGERA residents' fight to get city hall to stop a unit and childcare development in a quiet suburban street has paid off. A Brisbane City Council spokesman confirmed this afternoon it had rejected a proposal to combine five vacant blocks for an apartment building...
Developers withdraw controversial childcare proposal
The Courier Mail - Brian Bennion - September 25, 2018DEVELOPERS have withdrawn plans for a controversial multi-storey childcare centre at the old TAB site at Bulimba.The site straddles busy Hawthorne and Ridings roads at the Oxford St roundabout next to Bulimba State School. Edge Early Learning withdrew its application last week...
Attendance at pre-school key to literacy, numeracy
The Australian - Amos Aikman - September 25, 2018A study of more than 60,000 children born in the Northern Territory since 1994 has found that boosting remote preschool attendance could increase their chances of meeting Year 3 minimum standards for writing and numeracy by up to 70 per cent. The study...
Labor would ban child care enrolment gifts
9News.com.au - September 24, 2018Childcare centres would be banned from offering parents rewards such as free iPads and holiday packages for enrolling their children under a Labor government. Opposition spokeswoman Amanda Rishworth says such incentives may lure parents into child care...
Seven ways to improve the ACT's education system
Sydney Morning Herald - Kim Fischer - September 23, 2018Committing to introducing early childhood education for three-year olds. Research indicates that early childhood education is essential to allow people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to achieve parity in educational outcomes. Despite the Education...
Outrage over childcare giveaways to lure parents
The Courier Mail - Lanai Scarr - September 22, 2108Childcare centres are going to extraordinary lengths to lure parents through their doors with one centre offering families $1000 cash to enrol and the promotion being advertised on Gumtree. 123 Grow based in Logan Central in Brisbane this week admitted it had set up the promotion...
The mythical work-life balance that parents are chasing with Lawrence Leung
ABC News - Lawrence Leung - September 21, 2018In Australia, it's extremely difficult to balance working life and family without affordable childcare. There is a pressure for one parent to stay at home. This usually falls to the mothers instead of them re-joining the workforce, which in turn adds pressure on fathers to work harder...
Childcare 'missing service link' in Serpentine, and other towns in the Loddon Shire
Bendigo Advertiser - William Vallely - September 21, 2018There is one number that most in the town, most parents in particular, agree upon. Eight. In the Loddon Shire, just eight pre-kinder childcare spots are available. Four in Inglewood and four in Wedderburn. For Prue Milgate, a mother-of-two with a desire to get back to work...
Childcare subsidy changes leading to "chaos" for parents
ABC Radio - Julia Doyle on AM - September 21, 2018Families with a parent or child suffering from a major illness or disability say they have been left out in the cold by changes to the Federal Government's childcare subsidy. While the overhaul of childcare payments to families, which came into force in July, has helped many parents using...
In-home childcare subsidy changes leaving vulnerable families out of pocket
ABC News - Julie Doyle - September 21, 2018Some of Australia's most vulnerable families feel they have been abandoned by the Federal Government after changes to childcare payments left them with huge costs and a bureaucratic nightmare. An overhaul of the childcare subsidies system came into effect on July 2, and since then families...
Preschool funding to support about 400 new places
Northern Daily - September 20, 2018NEW, bigger, mobile or renovated preschools could be funded through a $6 million infrastructure investment into about 400 new preschool places across the state. The Start Strong Capital Works Grants program aims to increase the number of places available in areas of high need and demand...
