Child Care News
NSW Preschool expansion fund: $42.5m plan to provided thousands of extra places
The Daily Telegraph - Jake McCallum - October 1, 2021A major renovation fund — designed to dramatically expand facilities and places at preschools across the state — has been revealed by Education Minister Sarah Mitchell. The $42.5 million works program will give centres the opportunity to complete new...
Thornton Street Raceview child care centre: 113-place facility planned by Kids Early Learning Centres
The Courier Mail - Lachlan McIvor - October 1, 2021A new child care centre with capacity for 113 kids has been proposed in Ipswich on the site which housed one of Australia’s largest disability service providers. Azza Investments Pty Ltd has submitted a development application to Ipswich City Council for...
McLeans Road Kindergarten gets ready for its next generation of learners
The Sector - Freya Lucas - October 1, 2021The newly redeveloped McLeans Road Kindergarten in the Victorian suburb of Bundoora is gearing up to welcome local children in January 2022. The former single-room kindergarten has been replaced with a state-of-the-art two-room facility, providing interactive...
Childcare centres sell on record low yields
Financial Review - Martin Kelly - September 30, 2021Competitive investors pushed the yield on two large childcare centres to record lows at the Burgess Rawson commercial property auction in Sydney on Thursday. At the end of a bidding frenzy, an Affinity Childcare centre at Umina on the NSW central...
Gambling Community Benefit Fund will support QLD ECEC community
The Sector - Freya Lucas - September 30, 2021The following ECEC organisations have been successful in securing funding under round 110: Blackwater Tiny Tots Centre Inc – $ 24,606.20 to upgrade Facility, Florence Kindergarten & Preschool Incorporated – $35,000 to install a playground, Happy Valley Community...
City of Kingston prepares for preschooler peak with community consultation
The Sector - Freya Lucas - September 29, 2021Victoria’s City of Kingston is planning for an influx of preschoolers in the next 15 years, with projections showing that Highett, Moorabbin and Cheltenham are predicted to have a 54 per cent increase in children aged birth to four years of age in that time span...
Sell-out auction session sets records for child centres
Financial Review - Nick Lenaghan - September 28, 2021Childcare centres in inner-city Sydney and in Brisbane have sold for record prices and yields at auction as cashed-up investors pay up for exposure to essential service-style commercial property. The two childcare centres were part of a sell-out portfolio auction...
Sesame Lane Care & Kindergarten launches reward and recognition program
The Sector - Freya Lucas - September 28, 2021Family-owned early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider Sesame Lane Care & Kindergarten has recently been exploring a variety of strategies to mitigate ongoing workforce shortages affecting the sector more broadly. With 15 services and an existing...
Childcare Centre - Kangaroo Gully Road, Bellbowrie
Your Neighbourhood - September 28, 2021A development application has been lodged for a Childcare Centre, located 117 Kangaroo Gully Road, Bellbowrie. Designed by On Architecture, the proposal seeks a two childcare centre over the site, with a maximum building height (less than 9.5m high). The site is...
‘We should do everything we can’: Childcare giant to mandate jabs for all employees
The Age - Erin Pearson - September 28, 2021Goodstart Early Learning will make coronavirus vaccinations mandatory for all employees nationwide, making the childcare giant the first in the sector to mandate the vaccine. Chief executive officer Julia Davison made the announcement late on Monday...
Babies as young as six-months-old could be vaccinated against Covid-19 next year
Herald Sun - Samantha Maiden - September 27, 2021New trials are under way which could pave the way for children as young as six-months-old to be inoculated with the effective Moderna vaccine. Babies as young as six-months-old could be vaccinated against Covid-19 next year if trials of the vaccine Moderna demonstrate...
Aussie children as young as TWO could receive Moderna vaccine by November
Kidspot - Penelope Clifton - September 26, 2021The US manufacturer of Moderna has revealed plans to make the highly-sought after vaccine in Oz, as the company prepares to release clinical studies on administering the jab to children as young as two. Almost the entire Australian population might have the opportunity...
School holiday updates from DESE in relation to support in COVID-19 hotspots
The Sector - Frey Lucas - September 24, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) providers in Commonwealth declared COVID-19 hotspots (which last for more than seven days) will be contacted by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) in the event that they become eligible for...
Jabs made mandatory for Victorian schools and childcare
The Age - Melissa Cunningham and Adam Carey - September 22, 2021Victoria’s education unions have almost universally backed a state government move to mandate coronavirus vaccines for teachers and childcare workers, but an organisation representing Christian schools has warned the sector faces “significant challenges” with...
Waiting lists increase as childcare centres struggle with demand and staff shortages
Mercury - Rosemary Murphy - September 23, 2021Demand for childcare in Tasmania has surged with hundreds of families now stuck waiting for care. Increased demand for places and difficulties recruiting staff are putting pressure on Tasmanian childcare providers, with some centres in Hobart now having waiting...
