Child Care News
Critical Kingston SE childcare shortage stops parents from returning to work
The Advertiser - Jessica Ball - July 5, 2021Parents are forced to give up careers, or drive hundreds of kilometres and rely on friends and family as a lack of childcare burdens on an otherwise quintessential South Australian town. When Kristen and Tom Wilks’ daughter Frankie was ...
Cairns childcare centre development: Redlynch home set for demolition
Cairns Post - Chris Calcino - July 5, 2021Redlynch Properties Pty Ltd has lodged plans to remove the current home from the site to replace with a large childcare centre. “The centre will operate from 6am to 6pm Monday to Friday and Saturday mornings, will employee 14 staff and have a capacity of 100 children of ...
How KU Children’s Services selected Storypark Manage as their new CCMS partner
The Sector - Jason Roberts - July 5, 2021KU Children’s Services, the Sydney headquartered not for profit early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider, recently confirmed that Storypark Manage will be its new child care management system (CCMS) partner, with planning for the roll out to its network of 115 services ...
Young Barngarla language students visit Port Lincoln
Port Lincoln Times - Jarrad Delaney - July 5, 2021A group of kindergarten children are contributing to the further revival of the Barngarla language and even got to meet local Barngarla speakers during a recent field trip to Port Lincoln. Thirty two children have been learning the Barngarla language at the Kidz Club Childcare and ...
2 quality ASX dividend shares with very attractive yields
The Motley Fool - James Mickleboro - July 3, 2021The Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT is a real estate investment trust focused on social infrastructure properties. These include properties such as childcare centres and government sites. Demand has been very strong for its properties. So much so, at the end of the first half ...
Jodie Harrison visits St Nicholas Early Childhood Education Centre
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 2, 2021New South Wales Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Learning, Ingrid Stitt recently visited St Nicholas Early Education in Muswellbrook as part of her tour of early childcare centres across the State. “Part of my job is to meet as many teachers and educators as possible so that ...
Graceville childcare, shop project on Nanette Lilley site approved
Courier Mail - Brendan O'Malley - July 2, 2021A modernist childcare centre and shops on a Graceville street lined with elegant Queenslanders has been approved despite traffic, parking and a host of other concerns by angry neighbours. The approval of Graceville Skies Pty Ltd’s project comes as another developer lodged plans ...
Kingston SE takes small step towards new childcare centre
ABC News - Grace Whiteside and Selina Green - July 2, 2021Plans are progressing to resolve a lack of childcare services that has impacted families in Kingston South East for decades. The local council has accepted a $10,500 grant from the Department for Education to develop a business case for a local childcare centre that it hopes ...
Best rated childcare centres in Dubbo region revealed
The Daily Telegraph - Ryan Young, The Dubbo News - July 2, 2021With the population of the Dubbo region on the rise, childcare centres are a hot commodity in the region. But it can be hard to know what centres are the best. Childcare centres are assessed by the Department of Education on seven quality areas including educational programs ...
Canadian Education Company Maple Bear Brings It's Bilingual Childcare Centres To Australia
Business Franchise Australia and New Zealand - July 2, 2021Investors will soon be able to open a bilingual childcare centre with Canadian company, Maple Bear Global Schools. The school is extending its investment opportunity to Australia, offering a quality, immersive bilingual education and the chance to be part of a global network of over...
Guardian Childcare and Education shares sustainability focus based on four key areas
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 2, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider Guardian Childcare and Education has outlined its commitment to embedding sustainability in its children’s programs, outlining the four key areas of sustainability which it focuses on: Electricity reduction and efficiency ...
Goodstart agrees to boost ECT pay rates in a bid to address workforce shortages
The Sector - Freya Lucas - July 2, 2021Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider Goodstart Early Learning has announced that it will increase the wages of its early childhood teachers (ECTs) by ten per cent, with some to receive even greater increases, in response to ECTs leaving the early learning sector for higher paid ...
Childcare centres in south-west Sydney: best rated
The Daily Telegraph - Joanna Panagopoulos - July 1, 2021With the population of south west Sydney booming, childcare centres are a hot commodity in the region. But it can be hard to know which centres are the best. Childcare centres are assessed by the Department of Education on seven quality areas including educational programs and practices...
KU Children’s Services partnership with Storypark flourishes as it enters 5th year
The Sector- Jason Roberts - June 30, 2021KU Children’s Services and Storypark’s partnership has now entered its fifth year as two of the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector’s best known for-purpose organisations continue to work collaboratively to improve outcomes for children and their families...
Business and childcare relief package supported by Waverley Council
Mirage News - June 30, 2021Following an extraordinary meeting last night, Waverley Council has agreed to another round of business and community support measures to help local businesses during this current lockdown period. The measures agreed include direct financial support through fee...
