Child Care News
Antiquated school day is failing everyone
Sydney Morning Herald - Dave Sharma - June 17, 2018At a time when a major policy challenge for all levels of government is to increase workforce participation, especially of women, schools remain structured around the now antiquated post-war family structure. The school routine continues to assume that one parent (the male)...
Commercial Property: Demand from investors for childcare assets outweighing supply as Thornton facility set for auction
The Herald - June 15, 2018Strong interest is expected for a brand-new 91-place childcare centre when the Thornton property goes to auction on Tuesday. Burgess Rawson are marketing the G8 Education early years learning centre which is positioned on a 2479 square metre corner site with 24 on-site car parks...
Even in more 'female' workplaces, men have a better shot at being in charge
ABC News - Cristen Tilley - June 15, 2018The biggest gap is in dentistry, where 1.9 per cent of dental assistants are male, compared to 57.7 per cent of dentists. Even in occupations such as child care, where most managers are female, men represent a higher proportion of managers than they do workers...
A missed opportunity to invest in future generations of children
WA Today - Amanda Tobler - June 14, 2018That missing part is the early childhood education and care sector. More than 15,000 children attend Early Learning Centres across Canberra each year. These children benefit from services providing a vitally important role in supporting them to develop through their early years and to ensure that...
Aboriginal educators unhappy with federal childcare reforms
Western Advocate - Jacinta Carroll - June 14, 2018FEDERAL childcare reforms due to begin in early July have angered local Aboriginal educators, who say the changes will take away the basic right to self-determination and violate cultural safety. Under the new childcare package, Aboriginal education facilities such as Bathurst's Towri...
Winanga-li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre and Gunnedah Preschool form partnership to bolster Indigenous language
Naomi Independent Valley - Vanessa Höhnke - June 14, 2018Child care centre manager Wayne Griffiths said the language program will increase the level of Aboriginal language taught in early childhood services and it's "really critical" to use local people to do that. "In any language across the state and Australia and across the world, statistically...
Is this the end of the reading wars? Study finds phonics an essential foundation in learning to read
ABC News - By Antonette Collins on AM - June 13, 2018A new scientific study that aims to end the so called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read. The paper from Australian and English researchers says the battle between phonics and a whole language approach has become too...
Childcare centres failing to sign up to new system
Daily Telegraph - Lanai Scarr - June 14, 2018LAZY childcare centres risk leaving up to 127,000 families significantly out of pocket as a result of their failure to sign up to the new subsidy system. With less than three weeks to go until the government''s childcare changes come into force, 707 centres are still yet to switch over to the new system...
$38 million of childcare centres up for grabs at auction
Financial Review - Larry Schlesinger - June 13, 2018A portfolio of seven childcare centres in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia will go under the hammer next week, with expectations they could fetch a combined $38 million. The specialist asset class, whose rental income is underpinned by federal government childcare subsidies...
Preschool director praises Wollongong Coal, says $1 deal not forced
Illawarra Mercury - Agron Latifi Jun 13, 2018The decision by Wollongong Coal to lease property to Little School Preschool for $1 a year for 10 years was a "pleasant surprise"but in no way "enforced". So said preschool director Danae Horsey, who expressed "disappointment" the announcement was made public on Tuesday. As reported in...
Child Care Subsidy will leave thousands of families worse off - are you one of them?
ABC News - Kirrin McKechnie - June 13, 2018In under three weeks, the Child Care Subsidy comes into force, and while it was designed to be fairer, there are fears many working families will be left thousands of dollars out of pocket. The new subsidy was hailed as the most significant change to childcare in forty years, set to give...
Minister rejects childcare red tape outcry
Yahoo 7 News - Karen Sweeney - June 12, 2018Changes to child care subsidies will cut red tape and pay dividends for families, Education Minister Simon Birmingham says. But providers fear the changes will make managing enrolment lists more complex, while parents could struggle with maintaining consistent child care hours...
Childcare groups slam draconian regulation
SBS News - June 12, 2018Childcare centres have closed and others are struggling to keep up with a raft of "draconian" regulations, an inquiry has been told. More changes are on the way from July 2 when a new single-test subsidy is introduced to link parent work, study and volunteer hours with the number of...
Make childcare tax-deductible and unleash an army of smart workers
The Australian - Kate Ashmore - June 12, 2018We have yet to figure out how someone can be in two places at once - that's why childcare is an essential service. With the cost of housing and energy at record highs, many parents have no choice but to work and rely on childcare. Yet despite Australia producing among the highest levels...
Government plan to move almost all services online within seven years
Sydney Morning Herald - Sally Whyte - June 12, 2018The inquiry has heard about hardware failures that caused outages for the Tax Office website and budget blowouts of IT upgrades for the Human Services child care payments system. The minister said he didn't want to wait for the report or the APS review before directing...
