Child Care News
Schools are Australia's new COVID battleground. How risky are they really?
ABC News - Catherine Taylor - August 9, 2021Across Australia's east COVID-19's Delta variant is spreading, and the battle lines are being redrawn. In less than a week, clusters of positive cases have emerged in a number of schools in Queensland, Victoria, and the NSW Hunter region — with city-wide lockdowns following ...
Eden Academy to open first Mackay childcare centre
The Courier Mail - Heidi Petith - August 9, 2021A new childcare centre has been approved on a block of land originally zoned for residential homes on the northside of Mackay. Mackay Regional Council has granted Eden Academy’s application to build a 108-place childcare centre at 2 Jackman Court, Beaconsfield ...
Change to vaccine rollout means Qld teachers, FIFO workers now a priority
The Australian - Ellen Ransley - August 8, 2021Queensland’s teachers and FIFO workers have become priorities for the state’s vaccination rollout amid the Delta outbreak. School staff and childcare workers have been added to the state’s 1B priority list, as well as fly-in-fly-out, freight and distribution centre workers...
Kindergarten not year 12 should get priority
The Sydney Morning Herald - Rosalind Dixon and Richard Holden - August 8, 2021The Premier has shown welcome concern for children during COVID – and especially children from disadvantaged backgrounds for whom admission to university can be life-changing. Trying to make sure these teenagers can sit the HSC is part of the Premier having ...
YMCA WA wants Kalgoorlie-Boulder staff to bolster new child care centre
The West Australian - Tegan Guthrie - August 8, 2021YMCA WA wants Kalgoorlie-Boulder staff to bolster new child care centre. YMCA WA is hoping to bolster its employee base at its new early learning centre, with local staff to help boost the city's economy and ensure local understanding and perspectives are at the ...
Australia’s childcare system needs reform as parents hit with rebate bills during lockdown
The Daily Telegraph - Lisa Mayoh - August 7, 2021Jonica Williams is proof the Australian childcare system is broken. Last week, just as she and her husband lost their income due to Covid lockdowns, she got a childcare rebate bill of close to $7000 which dated back to 2018 for sons Jonty and Henry, both four. “I was absolutely shocked ...
Childcare crisis as Out of School Hours Care centres threaten closure
Herald Sun- Natasha Bita - August 7, 2021Exclusive: Dozens of after-school care centres are set to shut as pandemic lockdowns send half of them broke, providers have warned. With 80 per cent of students homeschooling in Sydney, Melbourne, southeast Queensland and the Upper Hunter Region of NSW, many centres ...
Early childhood education and care is at a crisis point. Again.
Women's Agenda - Georgie Dent - August 6, 2021In April last year the Prime Minister and the Education Minister made the jaw-droppingly unlikely announcement that early childhood education and care would be free for parents in Australia during the coronavirus pandemic. “This virus is going to take enough from Australians ...
Mayfield Childcare sees half year 2021 performance bounceback after challenging 2020
The Sector - Jason Roberts - August 6, 2021Mayfield Childcare, the Victorian focussed early childhood education and care provider, has released its half year 2021 results which showcased a significant bounce back in performance compared to 2020, both operationally and financially. Revenues in the six months ended ...
One Tree Community Services excited by over $3 million in CCCF funding
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 5, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider One Tree Community Services has shared its excitement over the announcement that ten of its services will receive over three million dollars in funding from the Community Child Care Fund (CCCF) Grant opportunity ...
Vic early childhood minister thanks ECEC for dedication as lockdown ends
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 5, 2021Victorian Minister for Early Childhood Ingrid Stitt has thanked early childhood teachers, educators and staff for their dedication, endurance and professionalism in keeping early childhood education and care (ECEC) services running through the latest round ...
Margaret River childcare centre sets the bar high
Augusta-Margaret River Mail - August 5, 2021The Margaret River Community Centre for Children (MRCCC) is one of 10 centres across Australia participating in a national and international research project looking at educators' work in exemplary early childhood education and care (ECEC) services.MRCCC is a family-oriented ...
Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns
The Guardian - Luke Henriques-Gomes - August 4, 2021Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders. The halt on debt recovery, announced by the government on Tuesday night, comes amid reports ...
Goodstart Early Learning Taree works to reduce food waste through YBIF program
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 5, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider Goodstart Early Learning in Taree, New South Wales, has been exploring how to reduce food waste as part of the MidWaste Your Business is Food (YBIF) program. The YBIF program, designed by the NSW Environmental ...
Successful program getting more Indigenous kids into preschool gets $120 million
The Sydney Morning Herald - Lisa Visentin - August 4, 2021In the outback town of Bourke in north-west NSW, a program called Connected Beginnings has almost tripled the number of Indigenous and vulnerable children attending preschool. Now more than $120 million will be spent expanding the early childhood education initiative ...
