Child Care News
Adventure Patch CEO calls for mandatory vaccinations for Tasmanian child care workers
The Mercury - Cameron Whitedley - November 19, 2021A TASMANIAN child care provider has expressed surprise at the lack of a mandate to vaccinate the sector’s workers against Covid-19, and have now gone it alone to introduce their own rule to protect staff and children. From December 3, all staff at Adventure...
Schools, childcare need clean air zones
The West Australian - Emily Woods - November 18, 2021Victoria should set up clean air zones around schools and childcare centres due to health risks caused by pollution in high traffic areas, a parliamentary report recommends. The state's Environment and Planning Committee on Thursday published a 312-page...
Former Leagues Club to become childcare centre
Coast Community News - Jackie Pearson - November 18, 2021There’s been a baby boom on the Peninsula and growing demand for childcare services has resulted in the new owners of the former Woy Woy Leagues Club building deciding to turn it into a childcare centre. Managing agent, Larry Altavilla of inStyle Real Estate...
Bowraville Community Preschool Gets Funding For Wider Early Learning Support
News of The Area - Andrea Ferrari - November 18, 2021BOWRAVILLE Community Preschool is one of around fifty eligible early childhood education services in NSW that will receive grant funding to provide Aboriginal children and families with additional support to participate in 600 hours of quality early childhood...
Childcare COVID vaccine mandates causing staff shortages and fee hikes
ABC News - Alison Branley and Conor Duffy - November 18, 2021Childcare centre operators say fee hikes at some centres are inevitable as mandates for COVID-19 vaccinations around the country force them to terminate staff and put others on leave. With the deadline for mandatory jabs for workers approaching in many states...
What’s the plan for managing COVID-19 in childcare?
The Sydney Morning Herald - Rachel Clun - November 17, 2021So far around the country, more than 17 million people have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. That number doesn’t include young children, and while the medical regulator is considering vaccines for five to 11-year-olds, our youngest are unlikely...
Paisley Park Early Learning to open new childcare centre at 14 Johnston St, Stirling
The Advertiser - Lydia Kellner - November 17, 2021A three-storey childcare centre could replace a residential home in a quiet neighbourhood street in Stirling, under plans lodged with the Adelaide Hills Council. White Rabbit Group Pty Ltd has lodged development plans to construct a Paisley Park Early Learning...
AHPPC releases statement on COVID-19, schools and ECEC
The Sector - Freya Lucas - November 17, 2021The best method to protect all children from COVID-19 is to ensure vaccination of those around them, the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) has said in a statement on COVID-19, schools and early childhood education and care (ECEC)...
NSW passes new laws impacting ECEC, designed to tighten child protection
The Sector - Freya Lucas - November 17, 2021The New South Wales Government passed new laws through parliament yesterday, designed to offer greater consistency in how organisations protect children. Under the new laws the Office of the Children’s Guardian (OCG) will have additional powers to monitor...
G8 confirms David Foster as new Chairperson, as Mark Johnson steps down
The Sector - Jason Roberts - November 17, 2021G8 Education has provided an update on its succession planning process and has confirmed that David Foster will replace Mark Johnson as Chair of the Group and that two new non-executive directors have been appointed to fill roles vacated by retiring directors...
Federal Labor promises to bring down childcare costs in Townsville
Townsville Bulletin - Caitlan Charles - November 17, 2021LABOR has vowed to make childcare more affordable after new data revealed Townsville families have been hit with increases double the national average. Department of Education figures provided by the Opposition show child care fees jumped 5 per cent...
COVID-19 mandatory vaccination policy for SA teachers and early childhood workers
ABC News - By Rebecca Brice and Eugene Boisvert - November 16, 2021All staff and volunteers at South Australian schools, preschools and early childhood facilities will have to be double-vaccinated for COVID-19 before the start of the next school year. They will have to show they have received their first vaccination by December 10...
Specific COVID plan needed to protect kids
7 News - Dominic Giannini - November 16, 2021A former premier has blasted as inappropriate the federal government's failure to model the consequences of COVID-19 for children under the age of five. Jay Weatherill, who now heads up childcare advocacy initiative Thrive by Five, told a Senate committee...
Another round of records fall at Burgess Rawson auctions as demand for ECEC freeholds remains robust
The Sector - Jason Roberts - November 16, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) focused real estate and business broker Burgess Rawson has completed its latest auction campaign in which multiple new price records were released as strong investor demand continues to drive prices firmly higher...
‘A generation of children are going to miss out’ if leaders don’t plan for pandemic recovery: experts
The Sydney Morning Herald - Katina Curtis - November 16, 2021Experts warn a generation of children who have missed out on vital early learning because of coronavirus lockdowns risk being left behind unless governments explicitly consider how to catch them up and ensure childcare stays open. They will tell a Senate...
