Child Care News
Childcare is an essential service for nurses and midwives to care for our community
The Transcontinental - Annie Butler - August 4, 2021The results from the Early Learning Monitor - a large national survey commissioned by Thrive by Five and released last week - echoes the voices of nurses and midwives when it comes to a lack of affordable, high-quality early learning and childcare that suits their needs ...
Greater flexibility in child care absences for families in lockdown
Mirage News - August 3, 2021Families in Commonwealth declared hotspots will get access to additional absence days from child care during COVID-19 lockdowns, to help keep children enrolled and protect child care providers. Allowable absences mean a family can chose not to send their child to care, but ...
Department of Communities sounds alarm about perimeter safety with $20,000 penalty
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 3, 2021An early childhood provider in Mandurah, Western Australia, has been ordered to pay $20,000 in penalties and costs by the State Administrative Tribunal for the contravention of section 165(1) of the Education and Care Service National Law (Western Australia) Act 2012 ...
Preschool needs extra funding support to get off the ground, Murray River Council says
The Sector - Freya Lucas - August 3, 2021Murray River Council is hopeful it will have an outcome regarding a funding application to the Federal Government soon, saying the new Moama Preschool “is entirely contingent on additional money from the Commonwealth to enable council to deliver the project in full” ...
Remote auction generates $42m in ‘essential services’ sales
Australian Financial Review - Larry Schlesinger - August 3, 2021A remotely held auction of childcare centres, petrol stations, pharmacies, medical centres and takeaway restaurants generated $42.2 million of sales and a clearance rate of 90 per cent as investors showed enthusiasm for “essential services” real estate that has ...
Centrelink bills Sydney families thousands over childcare subsidy during Covid lockdown
news.com.au - Sarah Sharples - August 2, 2021Rebecca Coulson was “shocked” when she was sent two bills just weeks apart from Centrelink demanding she pay back more than $11,000 in childcare subsidies. The mum-of-one received a bill for $7665 for the financial period 2018/19, which is due on September 22, with the letter ...
Cumberland Council rejects childcare centre privatisation
Daily Telegraph - Joanne Vella - August 2, 2021Cumberland Council has put the brakes on plans to privatise its 17 childcare centres that care for 660 children after a groundswell of public backlash, although places for children under three will be reduced. The cash-strapped council revealed in August that it was considering ...
Employers may have legal right to require staff get vaccinated
news.com.au - Natalie Brown - August 2, 2021Australian employers could have both a legal right and duty to require their staff get vaccinated against Covid-19, a senior barrister has said. Former president of the Law Council of Australia and NSW Bar Association, Arthur Moses SC, told a legal conference on Friday that ...
New childcare centre planned for Bacchus Marsh
Melton Boorabool Star Weekly - Benjamin Millar - August 2, 2021A new 110-place childcare care centre could be built in Bacchus Marsh under plans recently lodged with Moorabool council. The $2 million centre has been flagged for construction by Bacchus Marsh Holdings on a vacant site on the corner of Gisborne Road and the Western Freeway ...
Former Weston Creek Children's Centre director Emma Morton now facing 80 fraud charges
ABC News - Elizabeth Byrne - August 2, 2021More charges have been laid against a former Canberra child care director accused of defrauding the business of more than $375,000.Emma Louise Morton was previously facing 49 charges for allegedly making dozens of payments from the Weston Creek Children's Centre ...
Coalition of NSW ECEC providers calls for urgent Commonwealth support as fee waiver and lockdown challenges intensify
The Sector - Jason Roberts - August 2, 2021A coalition of New South Wales’ largest early childhood education and care (ECEC) providers and representative organisations are calling on the Prime Minister to provide tailored financial support to the sector in the wake of intensifying financial challenges being experienced ...
Xplor marks launch of new NQS guide series with release of Quality Area 1 report
The Sector - August 2, 2021Childcare management software provider Xplor has released a new free report for early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to help improve ratings in Quality Area 1 of the National Quality Standard (NQS) as part of a new series of reports dedicated to supporting ...
The nanny boom: pandemic drives parents to seek extra help
The Age - Henrietta Cook - August 1, 2021Nanny agencies are experiencing unprecedented demand as parents seek an extra set of hands to ease the pressure of home schooling and working from home. Agencies are struggling to find enough nannies to meet the demand, with some placing three times as many nannies ...
NSW COVID-19 cases see supermarkets, chemists and a childcare centre added as exposure sites
7news.com.au - Summer Woolley - July 31, 2021The number of exposure sites across New South Wales continues to rise with almost fifty new venues listed overnight. Among the latest close contact venues are a Chemist Warehouse, a doughnut shop, and a childcare centre. Anyone who attended the following venues is a close contact ...
2 high quality ASX dividend shares with big yields
The Motley Fool - James Mickleboro - July 31, 2021The first ASX dividend share to look at is the Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT. It is a real estate investment trust focused on social infrastructure properties. In fact, it is Australia’s largest owner of early learning centres, actively partnering with 37 high quality childcare operators ...
