Child Care News
Childcare fee waiver brings relief to Canberra families in lockdown
The Canberra Times - Sarah Landsdown - August 19, 2021Canberra families keeping their children home from childcare will have one less thing to worry about since the federal government allowed centres to waive gap fees during lockdown. Centres will still receive the childcare subsidy component but can opt to not ...
$2.4 million to improve early childhood nutrition
Ministers Department of Health - August 19, 2021The Morrison Government is investing $2.4 million to help parents, early childcare workers, GPs and other health professionals improve the nutrition of Australian children up to five years of age. Our Government recognises the importance of establishing healthy ...
Why universal childcare would be our greatest investment
The Canberra Times - Jon Jureidini - August 18, 2021Children require consistency, stimulation, responsiveness, and rich play environments. This isn't always available at home, meaning access to high-quality childcare can change lives. As a child psychiatrist, I don't believe there's been sufficient recognition of the ...
Childcare centre Erina Heights: DA for The Entrance Rd comes before planning panel
The Daily Telegraph - Fiona Killman - August 18, 2021A plan for a massive childcare centre on The Entrance Rd in Erina Heights – just 4km down the road from another centre under construction – is set to come to the local planning panel. A childcare centre is being proposed at a former dog boarding kennel facility ...
Delta is forcing parents to make tough choices while childcare centres are hurting
ABC News - Conor Duffy and Gemma Breen - August 18, 2021Melbourne dad Joel Feren and his wife Jo have had the same debate for two months now — send their kid to daycare with Delta on the loose or keep their little one at home. It's a difficult decision and one that's playing out in lounge rooms across Australia ...
Childcare centre planned
Star Weekly - August 18, 2021A new 110-place childcare centre could be built in Maddingley to help cater for the area’s booming growth in young families. Development Holding Pty Ltd has lodged plans for the new ‘Eden Academy’ centre to be built on a vacant block of land in Griffith Street ...
Childcare to get cheaper for Australia’s low and middle income earners
News.com.au - Sarah Sharples - August 17, 2021Working parents could secure childcare for as little as $6 a day for a second child, while families with an income of over $190,000 are set to win. For families with two or more children or who earn more than $190,000, there is welcome relief on its way with childcare set to become cheaper ...
Free childcare as centres waive out-of-pocket fees in Australia’s lockdown hot spots
Herald Sun - Natasha Bita - August 16,2021Families in Covid-19 hot spots will get free childcare if they keep their kids home. Here’s how the changes will work. Families who keep their kids home will get free childcare during lockdowns lasting more than a week, under permanent pandemic changes announced by the ...
Alan Tudge says the Coalition has increased childcare subsidies by 77 per cent since coming to office. Is he correct?
ABC News - August 17, 2021The claim: As both sides of politics gear up for an election fight, child care is set to be an area of tight contest. Key Labor figures have been on the attack, saying Coalition changes to childcare policy had "failed" and fell "abysmally short" of supporting Australian families ...
Childcare subsidies passed for high income earners, multiple children in care
ABC News - Tom Lowrey - August 17, 2021If you've got two or more kids in childcare, or earn more than $190,000 as a family, childcare is going to get a little bit cheaper for you. The federal government has passed changes it announced during the budget through Parliament, and they will take effect from July next year ...
New three-storey childcare centre set to open in Bulimba next year
The Courier Mail - Natasha Emeck - August 17, 2021A warehouse is set to be demolished to make way for a new three-storey, 122-student childcare centre near Bulimba Memorial Park. If the amended plans are approved, Harmony Early Learning Journey will be opening the new centre in Bulimba in the first quarter of 2022 ...
Teachers in Sydney hotspots receive vaccine access after 30 school closures
The Sydney Morning Herald - Natassia Chrysanthos - August 16, 2021Almost 32,000 teachers and school staff in Sydney’s west and south-west have been given priority vaccine access from Monday amid the escalating COVID-19 outbreak, which has forced more than 30 NSW schools to temporarily shut due to confirmed cases. The state ...
Gold Coast schools facing staff shortages with teachers stranded in NSW
myGC.com.au - Monique StClaire - August 16, 2021Border closures are expected to have a major impact on Gold Coast schools today, now that teachers are not allowed in from New South Wales. It’s one of the restrictions brought in over the weekend, with teachers and childcare workers not considered essential enough to cross the border.
ECEC community welcomes ASQA decision to extend transition period from 12 to 18 months
The Sector - Jason Roberts - August 16, 2021The Australian Childcare Alliance (ACA) and the broader early childhood education and care (ECEC) community have welcomed a decision by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) to extend the transition period for the full implementation of the new ...
Rothwell Edge retail development to hit the market before construction even finished
Courier Mail - Erin Smith - August 16, 2021A multimillion-dollar retail hub north of Brisbane will hit the market for a second time before it is even built. Stages 1 and 2 of the development, which is under construction, includes a 160 place childcare centre. The childcare centre, which will be operated by LEAD Childcare...
