Child Care News
Three childcare centres could be built in Adelaide’s northeast
The Advertiser - Ben Cameron - August 29, 2021Three childcare centres could be built within a five kilometre radius in Adelaide’s northeast, with one proposed to take over a local shopping centre. Plans have been lodged for a two-storey centre at 67 and 69 Hamilton Rd, Fairview Park by Future Urban, and another at ...
Mapped: 42 new childcare centres springing up around Adelaide – but will this worsen the shortage of early childhood educators?
Herald Sun - Renato Castello and Lydia Kellner - August 28, 2021Dozens of childcare centres are poised to open across Adelaide sparking fears the “boom” will worsen an oversupply of places, threaten quality of service and further fuel a workforce crisis in the sector. A Sunday Mail investigation can reveal plans for at least 42 new childcare centres...
Return to schools in NSW begins on October 25, HSC delayed until November
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jordan Baker - August 27, 2021NSW students will begin returning to school from October 25, when kindergarten and year 1 students will go back to class and year 12 will get full access to their school ahead of a delayed HSC, which will begin on November 9, school principals were told on Friday.
New Stay At Home rules for grandparents in Victoria
Herald Sun - Stephen Drill - August 27, 2021Victorian grandparents have been banned from looking after grandchildren even if that had been their regular arrangement. Covid Response Commander Jeroen Weimar confirmed there was a tough interpretation of child care rules in Victoria. That type of care was no longer ...
Plans to build two-double-storey childcare centres in Adelaide’s south have been released
The Advertiser - Emily Jarvis - August 25, 2021Plans to build two, million dollar, double storey, childcare centres in Adelaide’s south have been tabled with a local council. Marc Duncan for Future Urban Pty Ltd has lodged plans to build two childcare centres, the first on the corner of Gledsdale Rd and Freya Ave in Hallett Cove ...
Baby Jack Loh‘s death subject of Sydney inquest
Daily Telegraph - Perry Duffin - August 24, 2021A Sydney daycare worker was not up to date with CPR training before baby Jack Loh was found unresponsive and no longer breathing in a bassinet. Now a court has heard claims her supervisor was spreading herself over two jobs, conducted short inspections, and now has to live with the ...
The government has again rescued the childcare sector from collapse. But short-term fixes still leave it at risk
The Conversation - Peter Hurley and Hannah Matthews - August 24, 2021The federal government yesterday announced a relief package for childcare providers affected by extended lockdowns. Childcare services in Commonwealth-declared hotspots will be eligible for payments of 25% of their pre-lockdown revenue. Outside-school-hours-care services ...
ECEC sector responds to Government’s COVID-19 funding lifeline to protect viability
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 24, 2021Prominent early childhood education and care (ECEC) groups and bodies have responded to yesterday’s announcement by Federal Minister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge that the Federal Government will provide targeted support to ECEC service providers in Commonwealth ...
Another childcare centre in Gungahlin among new ACT COVID-19 exposure sites
ABC News - Charlotte Gore - August 23, 2021Two new close-contact COVID-19 exposure locations have been identified in Canberra, including a childcare centre in Nicholls which had repeated and prolonged exposure to a positive case. Bright Bees Early Learning Centre in Nicholls is one of the new and updated locations ...
Parents, workers crave childcare certainty
The Canberra Times - Hannah Ryan - August 24, 2021Mei Lee and her husband were shocked when they learned two weeks ago that their two-year-old had been exposed to COVID-19 while at childcare. The couple had been constantly thinking about the risk while sending their daughter to the centre in Sydney's Marrickville ...
Rules on childcare clarified after widespread confusion
The Herald Sun - Mitch Clarke, Susuie O'Brien and Tom Minear - August 23, 2021A federal rescue package will keep childcare services open and help ensure parents won’t have to pay for childcare they’re not using. The fortnightly support payments for services come as a state-based permit system restricts childcare users to essential workers and vulnerable ...
What Australian parents need to know about COVID-19 and children
9 News - Emily McPherson - August 23, 2021Every day, parents in NSW and now Victoria, are watching the number of children infected with COVID-19 grow. Our kids, it seems, are bearing the brunt of Australia's third wave of the disease, driven by the highly virulent Delta strain. Just in NSW alone over the weekend, there were 204 ...
Victoria’s new Covid restrictions on childcare spark confusion among parents and providers
The Guardian - Josh Taylor - August 23, 2021The Victorian government’s new restrictions on childcare has caused confusion among parents and childcare providers with many unsure whether their children could still go on Monday. On Saturday, with Covid-19 case numbers hitting levels not seen since Victoria’s second wave ...
Vic Government announces new restrictions affecting ECEC effective 21 August
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 23, 2021The Victorian Government implemented new restrictions to early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings from 1pm on Saturday 21 August 2021 to help slow the spread of COVID-19 in the State. Communicated via an email from Kim Little, Deputy Secretary Early Childhood ...
Commonwealth announces financial support for childcare centres
The Age - Katina Curtis and Sumeyya Ilanbey - August 23, 2021Childcare and after school care services are hopeful a support package now on offer from the Commonwealth will bring the sector back from the brink of collapse and ensure it is still there for families once lockdowns end. Centres in areas where there are lockdowns for more than ...
