Child Care News
Parents to pay for childcare wage rise as early childcare teachers win 10 per cent pay boost
The Daily Telegraph - Natasha Bita - June 30, 2021Parents will pay for a 10 per cent wage rise for childcare teachers this year, as short-staffed centres struggle to recruit 4500 daycare workers. Australia’s biggest childcare provider, Goodstart Early Learning, will grant early childhood teachers a 10 per cent pay rise from July 1.
Families spend more on childcare than on groceries or bills
Brisbane Times - Anna Patty - June 30, 2021Nearly one in three families spend more on childcare than on groceries and more than 80 per cent spend more than they do on their utility bills, making it unaffordable for thousands of people across Australia. Analysis by education and health policy experts, the Mitchell Institute ...
Nearly 40% of Australian families can’t ‘afford’ childcare
The Conversation - Peter Hurley, Hannah Matthews - June 30, 2021Childcare is unaffordable for more than 385,000 Australian families, a new report from Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute shows. The Counting the cost to families: assessing childcare affordability in Australia report uses an international benchmark of no more than 7% of disposable ...
Perth lockdown COVID-19: Childcare centres to remain open, Sue Ellery confirms
The West Australian - Peter Law - June 29, 2021Childcare centres are open to all families during Perth’s four-day COVID-19 lockdown, authorities confirmed after some parents were asked if they were “essential workers”. Australian Childcare Alliance executive officer Rachelle Tucker said there was confusion as some centres ...
Childcare doesn't exist in Augusta and it's impacting parents and local businesses
ABC News - Zoe Keenan - June 28, 2021Kylie Lucas is one of the only qualified pharmacists in her town but she cannot work more than three days a week because of the total lack of childcare services. The mother-of-two is one of many skilled women in the town of Augusta and its surrounding rural suburbs in ...
Thousands of Sydney students isolating during holidays amid COVID-19 spread in schools
Sydney Morning Herald - Natassia Chrysanthos, Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll - June 28, 2021More than 1300 students and all staff from an eastern suburbs high school have been sent into self-isolation on the first day of holidays after a student tested positive to COVID-19, while dozens more children were impacted by a separate case at a holiday care club.
Røde lifts the bar on paid parental leave
Australian Financial Review - Tom McIlroy - June 28, 2021Companies competing on parental leave policies to win and retain the best Australian talent have a new standard to meet, as Røde Microphones implements a 20-week policy with full pay and super contributions. The Australian-owned and operated company will also give primary ...
Are children in COVID lockdown safe from the Delta strain and what can they do?
ABC News - June 28, 2021School holidays and COVID-19 outbreaks in Sydney tend to go hand-in-hand, with the latest lockdown starting just in time for the the full two-week winter term break. Travel plans were again cancelled as stay-at-home orders came into place across Greater Sydney from midnight ...
Kindy kids learning Barngarla Indigenous language, spread joy as they talk
ABC News - Jodie Hamilton - June 27, 2021Kindergarten children from Adelaide are playing a part in the revival of a lost Indigenous language, spreading joy during a cultural and language field trip to Port Lincoln. The Kidz Club Educational Centre, Modbury, has a linguistic focus on English, French and Barngarla ...
Childcare to remain open during NSW lockdown
Herald Sun - Shireen Khalil - June 26, 2021Parents of young kids will be relieved to know they can still send their children to daycare following NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian decision to lockdown Sydney. “Most people with little kids would know that that is essential,” NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said during ...
Circle In partners with CareforKids.com.au to boost company benefits platform for parents
SmartCompany - Stephanie Palmer-Derrien - June 25, 2021Aussie childcare startups Circle In and CareforKids.com.au have partnered up to integrate a childcare search and compare service into Circle In’s employee benefits platform for working parents. The partnership comes ...
North Manly: Boarding house to be built next to childcare centre
The Daily Telegraph - Jim O'Rourke, Manly Daily - June 25, 2021A boarding house with so-called “lodger rooms” has been given the go-ahead to be built next door to a child care centre on the northern beaches. The development application for the 10-room facility at North Manly has been approved by the independent Northern Beaches ...
Pollution double acceptable rate outside planned childcare centre
The Age - Tina Jacks - June 24, 2021Air pollution levels are double the acceptable rate on a truck-heavy corner where a childcare centre is set to be built in Melbourne’s inner-west. The finding by the state’s environmental watchdog comes amid calls for planning rules to prohibit building childcare centres in polluted areas ...
It takes a village: why sending your kid to childcare isn’t ‘outsourcing parenting’
The Conversation - Louise Beane - June 24, 2021A Coalition party room meeting this week debated the A$1.7 billion childcare package announced in the budget, which would increase subsidies for families with more than one child in care and remove a cap on subsidies for higher-income families. Some MPs reportedly argued ...
Café takeaway whets appetite for $4.5 million medical and childcare centre
Perth Now - Lucy Jarvis, Wanneroo Times - June 24, 2021Plans for a $4.5 million medical and childcare centre in Landsdale were approved after developers removed the cafe and pharmacy components. The Metro Outer Development Assessment Panel unanimously approved an application for the commercial development on the ...
