Child Care News
Mandatory child abuse reporting for Victorian childcare workers
Sydney Morning Herald - Noel Towell & Melissa Cunningham - July 10, 2018Childcare workers in Victoria will be legally obliged to report suspicions of sexual abuse of youngsters in their care as part of the state government's response to the child sex abuse royal commission. The Andrews government may also make it a crime for priests to keep the...
Gunnedah needs more early childhood teachers and space for children aged 0-2
Naomi Valley Independent - Vanessa Höhnke - July 10, 2018NSW TAFE is predicting that child care teaching is set to become one of the fastest growing occupations in Gunnedah. Mary Ranken Child Care Centre's Fiona Langdon said there was currently a shortage of early childhood teachers who are required for school readiness...
Childcare centres sending kids home with dinner boxes to help exhausted parents
Women's Agenda - Angela Priestley - July 10, 2018One childcare operator is now offering $5 dinner boxes to parents when picking up their kids from their centres. The initiative comes from Learn and Laugh Children's Centres, co-founded by Lilach Weininger, who knows firsthand how over-it working parents can be after a long...
Autism program to help kinder kids get ready for school
Herald Sun - Andrew Rogers - July 10, 2018So Ms Ryan and therapist Liz Shaw started William Ready, a program that was designed to complement William's experiences at mainstream kindergarten. "It all basically just started because we wanted something in addition to kinder. To build on those skills, for kids on...
Tennis - Player wellbeing eclipses childcare for WTA
SBS - July 9, 2018The issue of setting up more on-site childcare facilities, however, is unlikely to be resolved as quickly. The WTA's senior director for athlete assistance, Kathy Martin, explained that the body's responsibility was to ensure the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of its athletes...
We've been having the wrong conversation about childcare changes
Women's Agenda - Neela Janakiramanan - July 9, 2018What I have noticed is that these conversations are based on myths and outright lies spread by the government in promoting this new package. Firstly, means testing is not some glorious form of income redistribution where money flows like warm honey from those who can...
Why women don't return to work after baby
The Daily Telegraph - Vanessa Marsh - July 9, 2018NEW mums are returning to the workforce at an unprecedented rate with more than three quarters of working mothers going back to their previous job. But industry experts have warned Australia still has a long way to go to catch up to other developed countries, with high childcare...
Retail Food Group could be a target for Champ Private Equity
The Australian - Bridget Carter & Scott Murdoch - July 9, 2018Elsewhere, suitors for Affinity Education submitted bids for the business in the Luminis Partners-run contest last Thursday. Bain Capital, which owns Only About Children and Partners Group, is thought to be an interested buyer. However, the party that some have pinpointed as the...
Confusion over new childcare regulations, amid administrative and IT glitches
The West Australian - Phoebe Wearne & Rhianna Mitchell - July 8, 2018Several WA childcare providers are scrambling to resolve administration and IT glitches before the first invoices incorporating the new Child Care Subsidy go out to parents. Parents and providers faced confusion this week as they switched to the Federal Government's childcare rebate...
Parents out of pocket as Child Care Subsidy Rolls out
The Daily Telegraph - Christopher Harris July 6, 2018FAMILIES across NSW are being left hundreds of dollars out of pocket by administration and IT glitches that have locked them out of the federal government's new childcare rebate system. The Child Care Subsidy program that kicked in on July 1 will lift rebates for most families...
Premier Gladys Berejiklian recognises 'reality' of children playing toy gun games
The Daily Telegraph - Rose Brennan & Danielle Le Messurier - July 6, 2018PREMIER Gladys Berejiklian has called for people to acknowledge the "reality" of young children wanting to play with plastic guns with experts warning a blanket ban on the toys may drive youngsters into "unhealthy behaviours". A day after The Daily Telegraph revealed a childcare...
Latest Centrelink computer fail: new childcare system faces problems
Sydney Morning Herald - Sally Whyte - July 5, 2018The government's new childcare subsidy system has become the latest technology debacle, with both families and childcare providers struggling to access the system. The Centrelink website was down for maintenance over the weekend, as the new childcare subsidy regime came into...
Why we are missing the point in the childcare debate
Sydney Morning Herald - Polly Dunning - July 5, 2018And let's be clear: the system isn't working for anyone. Not for parents, who can barely afford to keep the lights on and keep their kids in care, not for early childhood educators, who are paid shamefully low salaries, and certainly not for children who have no or very limited entitlement to access...
'Many parents will be better off': Childcare prices rise … but so do rebates
Central Western Daily - July 5, 2018FEEDBACK from parents sending children to childcare centres in Orange has so far indicated changed subsidies will put them in front. Childcare payments have been merged into a single subsidy as of Monday, which is means tested and reliant on both parents working, studying, volunteering...
Tasmanian mums are getting a bit older, and nationally, more are returning to paid work
The Advocate - Leah McBey - July 5, 2018It showed that across the country, more women were returning to work after having a baby, more were going back to their former job and fewer were leaving the workforce permanently. The survey also showed women were spending more time at home with their new baby before...
