Child Care News
Childcare centres top shopping lists of small investors
Financial Review - Larry Schlesinger - November 15, 2021Highlighted the strength of demand for childcare centres in particular, three facilities in suburban Melbourne sold for a combined $36.64 million, two of them on yields below 4.4 per cent at the auction held at Crown Casino. A fourth childcare centre in Hallett Cove...
Free at-home testing introduced for kindergartens and daycares
Bendigo Advertiser - Alex Gretgrix - November 15, 2021KINDERGARTENS and long daycare centres will soon be in line with school settings, providing free rapid antigen test kits to help manage coronavirus outbreaks and limit disruption to children's learning. From November 15, all eligible kindergarten and long daycare...
New child care centre proposed for Boundary St near Bundaberg CBD
The Courier Mail - Geordi Offord - November 15, 2021If approved the centre would be able to care for 90 children between zero and five years old. The new facility would include five different classrooms, with adjoining sleep rooms for the areas proposed for children aged between zero and three years old. It will also...
Young children unlikely to be vaccinated against COVID until 2022, Health Minister Greg Hunt says
ABC News - Stephanie Dalzell - November 14, 2021However, Australia's national medical regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is still reviewing the health and safety data for younger kids. Once it gives the shot the green light, the nation's expert immunisation advisory body, The Australian Technical...
$5.5 million Bushland Kindy opening in Beaudesert in 2022
The Courier Mail - Madeline Grace - November 11, 2021A $5.5 million kindergarten will be opening in the hinterland, just south of Brisbane, early next year. The Bushland Kindy in Beaudesert already has more than a dozen families booked in. To be run by national childcare chain Amaze Early Education, the 202-216...
Member for McEwan says more needs to be done to reduce ECEC fees post COVID-19
The Sector - Freya Lucas - November 11, 2021Member for McEwen Rob Mitchell has called on the Federal Government to intervene and reduce the cost for early childhood education and care (ECEC) service provision, and to guarantee no fee increases by services in order to allow families in his electorate...
Canberra’s first Spanish preschool could be just the start of bilingual dream
Riotact - Katrina Condie - November 11, 2021The ACT’s first Spanish Australian Preschool is just the initial step for a language teacher and mother of two, who dreams of establishing a range of bilingual immersion programs in schools throughout Canberra. Children from as young as three can now enrol...
Phillip Island families struggle through childcare crisis
Herald Sun - Brooke Grebert-Craig - November 11, 2021The temporary closure of a Phillip Island childcare centre has left families scrambling for alternatives in the midst of a daycare crisis in Bass Coast. Nurture One Cowes Children’s Centre shut its doors on October 15 for additional remedial works after flooding...
Great Beginnings Early Learning Centre childcare approved for Yanchep
Perth Now - Tyler Brown - November 11, 2021A $2.1 million childcare centre has been conditionally approved for a vacant site between homes opposite Yanchep Rise Primary School. The single-storey Great Beginnings Early Learning Centre, on Primewest-owned land, would accommodate a maximum...
Geelong childcare services face staff battle as Covid worsens worker shortfall
Geelong Advertiser - Georgia Holloway - November 10, 2021Insecure work along with reported poor conditions, is fuelling a staff shortage across the childcare sector, with a council-operated service forced to close last week. It is understood the Bellarine Aquatic and Sports Centre’s (BASC) childcare services were...
Angas Steet, Ainslie: $3.2 million childcare development revealed
The Daily Telegraph - Julia Kanapathippillai - November 09, 2021Plans for a new $3.2 million childcare centre in Canberra's inner north are now open for public consultation. The proposed site for the childcare centre is 5 Angas Street, Ainslie, adjacent to the Alan Ray Oval. The childcare centre is expected to cater for...
Supply of new LDC centres tempered by lockdowns according to latest ACECQA snapshot
The Sector - Jason Roberts - November 09, 2021The growth in supply of new long day care (LDC) centres across Australia rose 3.3 per cent year on year according to the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority’s (ACECQA) latest NQF Snapshot as lockdowns tempered centre openings...
Labor pushes to end early childhood bureaucracy silos to reap economic benefits
The Sydney Morning Herald - Katina Curtis - November 08, 2021The opposition has expanded on its plan to offer higher childcare subsidies to more families to promise it will implement a cross-government early years strategy if it wins next year’s election, the Herald and The Age can reveal. The policy will be announced...
ACECQA develops case studies that demonstrate exceeding practice in each quality area
The Sector - Freya Lucas - November 08, 2021The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) has developed a set of case studies which offer practical examples of high-quality practice in outside school hours care, family day care and other prior-to-school centre-based facilities...
Funding on the way for Bathurst Family Day Care
The Sector - Freya Lucas - November 08, 2021Bathurst Family Day Care will receive $180,000 in funding from the New South Wales National Party, Federal Nationals Member for Calare Andrew Gee has announced. Mr Gee praised Bathurst Family Day Care, saying educators working in the scheme have...
