Child Care News
No one breezes through life when the wind just blows and blows
The Age - Daniella Miletic - August 7, 2018In at least one busy inner-city daycare centre in Melbourne, an experienced child-care worker has just checked the city's weather forecast and sighed. It's not good news for her or her team. Strong winds are set to rattle the city with full force this week again after a July which saw...
G8 founder expected to make child's play of Evolve Education
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson & Anthony Macdonald - August 7, 2018For the people watchers, there is big news at dual-listed childcare operate Evolve Education. Chris Scott, the man that built Australia''s biggest childcare roll-up G8 Education, has stormed on to the share register with a 19 per cent stake. Scott is expected to seek to use Evolve to try...
Fund preschool or disadvantage kids: Labor
SBS News - August 7, 2018Not renewing a national preschool agreement beyond the end of next year will put children at an educational disadvantage, Labor says. Australian children will be disadvantaged if a national agreement on preschool doesn't get extended beyond next year, the federal opposition...
Children with obesity costing taxpayers $43.2 million annually
Daily Telegraph - Lanai Scarr - August 7, 2018THE expanding waistlines of our children is costing Australian taxpayers $43.2 million annually - not including hospital care - according to a new study. Researchers at Monash University have for the first time calculated the cost of the obesity epidemic among our children aged 6 to 13...
Isolated education the focus
Katherine Times - Chris McLennan - August 6, 2018Difficulty in employing a skilled education workforce in rural and remote Australia was evident with a popular motion being presented asking the Federal Government to relax the legislation for the need to have a qualified Early Childhood Teacher or Certificate III ECEC qualified...
Chinese delegates to take back teaching techniques learnt in Australia
Central Western Daily - August 6, 2018A group of Chinese early childhood education and care professionals will return to their home country with new and improved skills and knowledge after undertaking a two-week study tour in Orange and the Central West. As part of a partnership with TAFE NSW, members of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and a number of other Chinese students spent two weeks learning from not only TAFE teachers, but industry experts at early childhood centres in Orange (Live Better), Molong and Forbes...
Union calls for free preschool in Victoria
Bega District News - Kaitlyn Offer - August 5, 2018Pre-school should be free so all Victorian children get an equal start to education, a union is demanding. Launching its state election campaign on Sunday, the Australian Education Union has called for free pre-school education for three and four-year-olds. "Over 50...
ICPA seeks teacher visa extensions for special work in remote regions
Queensland Country Life - Andrew Marshall - August 6, 2018The Isolated Children's Parents' Association wants working holiday visa rules broadened so overseas teachers and child care specialists working in geographically isolated areas can stay for a second year. The organisation is lobbying the federal government, including Immigration...
Threat to preschool funding revealed months after the federal budget
Financial Review - Robert Bolton - August 5, 2018Preschool and early-learning education for more than quarter of a million Australian children is under threat as the federal government prepares to cut nearly half a billion dollars of spending on the sector. A previously unreported statement in the May federal budget says government...
Lack of childcare chatter risks kids' language development
Sydney Morning Herald - Jordan Baker - August 5, 2018The more words a child hears from birth, the better their language will be. Parents are encouraged to begin chatting to their babies as newborns, and most trust that when they go back to work, child care staff will do the same. But a new study from Macquarie University has found...
Grandparents should have rules for minding your kids: Experts
The Courier Mail - Jackie Sinnerton - August 5, 2018MUMS and dads who use grandparents as babysitters are being advised to strike formal childcare agreements to avoid family meltdowns caused by lax discipline and standards. Child experts say parenting techniques have changed so much over the decades that drawing up...
Care fairly for the crucial carers
The Age - August 5, 2018Early childhood teachers are seeking to have their salaries on a parity with primary school teachers'. Childcare workers receive as little as $20 an hour, yet carry a huge responsibility. They deserve better. It is in the interest of us all to attract the best and brightest to these caring professions...
AFP to teach children about dangers lurking online
The Cairns - Lanai Scarr - August 4, 2018CHILDREN as young as two could be educated about online safety and the dangers they may face in cyberspace as part of an agreement between the Australian Federal Police and advocate group the Alannah & Madeline Foundation. News Corp Australia can reveal the two...
Sydney preschool kids do meditation to combat screen saturation
Daily Telegraph - Christopher Harris - August 4, 2018ONE Sydney preschool has swapped screen time for serene minds, with mediation sessions to settle students down - but the benefits to their learning and mental health will last a lifetime. At the beginning and again at the of each day at Randwick's Platinum Pre School...
Calls for federal government to commit to ongoing 15-hour kindergarten funding
Bendigo Advertiser - Natalie Croxon - August 3, 2018Councils and early childhood teachers continue to call on the federal government to commit to ongoing funding to ensure every child in the state can access 15 hours of kindergarten per week. Current funding arrangements with the state government run until...
