Child Care News
DESE issues clear guidance for NSW ECEC services affected by COVID-19 lockdown
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 16, 2021Extra support is now available for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector and families during the extended COVID-19 lockdown in New South Wales, the Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) has announced, also outlining additional advice and ...
KU Laurel Tree House Childcare Centre, Glebe: Parents fight to save facilities after sell-off revealed
The Daily Telegraph - Jake McCallum - July 16, 2021Desperate families at an inner-city childcare centre are calling on the NSW Government to stop the sale of their local facilities — with fears infants will be “turfed” in the middle of the pandemic. Parents at KU Laurel Tree House Childcare ...
Childcare centres in Greater Sydney allowed to waive gap fees for parents who keep kids at home
ABC News - July 15, 2021Childcare centres in Sydney's lockdown can chose to waive gap-fees for parents who keep their kids at home under new government support rules. Gap fees are the out-of-pocket fees paid on top of the childcare subsidy. The measure is opt-in, so childcare centres will have to ...
Plans lodged for a Nido Early School near Para Hills Shopping Centre
The Advertiser - Ben Cameron - July 15, 2021Plans have been lodged for the fourteenth Nido Early School in the state. Consultant Future Urban, on behalf of the company, has lodged plans on the PlanSA website for a centre at 198-200 Kesters Rd, Para Hills. The centre would cater for 88 preschool-aged children ...
No childcare fees for kids who stay at home
The Australian - Olivia Caisley - July 14, 2021Parents in NSW who keep their children home during stay-at-home orders will not be charged fees by their childcare providers under regulation changes made by the Morrison government. Education Minister Alan Tudge altered the rules on Wednesday night so that children...
Turramurra Boronia House: Decision on contentious childcare development
Daily Telegraph - David Barwell - July 14, 2021A long running development dispute over plans for a new “boutique” childcare centre in Turramurra has finally been determined after concerns were raised by local residents and council planners. The Land and Environment Court has knocked back a $1 million proposal to build...
2 ASX shares growing their dividends
Motley Fool - James Mickleboro - July 14, 2021The first ASX dividend share to consider is the Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT. It is a high quality real estate investment trust with a focus on properties with specialist use, limited competition, low substitution risk, and very long leases. These are properties such as bus depots, childcare centres...
Childcare plan for heritage-listed Sisters of Mercy Wooloowin convent
The Courier Mail - Brendan O'Malley, City North News - July 14, 2021They’ve been doing Brisbane’s laundry since 1889, but a childcare centre could be the latest growth industry to set up at the historic Sisters of Mercy site in Wooloowin. The sprawling site, which contained a convent ...
The profession that’s not on the priority list for anything
The Sydney Morning Herald - Jenna Price - July 13, 2021OPINION: When my daughter decided to become a high school teacher, I strongly advised against it. Lack of respect in the community. Difficulty in progression. Even then it was hard to get a permanent job. As usual, she ignored me. But I was right. She’s 30 weeks pregnant and off to ...
YMCA acts on childcare shortage in Kalgoorlie
The West Australian - Tegan Guthrie, Kalgoorlie Miner - July 13, 2021A new 92-place daycare centre that will help meet growing demand for child care in Kalgoorlie-Boulder is on track to open in November.
Child Care flagged as occupation in national shortage with “strong future demand” expected
The Sector - Jason Roberts - July 13, 2021The child care sector, and specifically child care educators, has been flagged as an occupation currently in short supply nationally with anticipated strong future demand anticipated post 2021 likely to add to the shortage according to the Australian Government’s National Skills ...
‘Treasured memories’: Child care worker retires after more than half century at Puss In Boots in Morningside
The Courier Mail - Natasha Emeck South-East Advertiser - July 13, 2021The owner of a popular daycare centre in Morningside has called time on her 50-year career spent caring for generations of kids across Brisbane. The owner of the Puss In Boots childcare, Pam Randall has been at the centre since it opened about half a century ago still working ...
Bringing social robots into early childhood education
Griffith University - Eddie Ngaluage - Buy 13, 2021Griffith University researchers are on the verge of understanding the benefits interactive social robots can offer early childhood educators in the classroom. NAO robot is programmable, can recognise speech in 20 languages ...
One Tree Community services brings in EduTribe FIFO program to beat remote shortages
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 13, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider One Tree Community Services has introduced an innovative program to combat workforce shortages at its remote sites, known as EduTribe FIFO. EduTribe FIFO allows West Australian educators ...
Stroud’s Zoë Tolhurst Recognised With Prestigious TAFE NSW Award
News of the Area - July 13, 2021Zoë Tolhurst is precisely what the early childcare industry needs and was recently acknowledged by TAFE NSW for precisely that. Awarded with the 2021 TAFE NSW Trainee of the Year, Zoë was recognised for her dedication and passion for her Certificate III in Early Childhood ...
