Child Care News
The Sector launches Child Care Management System (CCMS) Survey – Have your say and enter the $3k Multi Prize Draw!
The Sector - Freya Lucas - June 21, 2021The Sector has launched its inaugural Child Care Management System (CCMS) Survey, a new initiative designed to provide CCMS users the opportunity to share their day to day experience of using the diverse range of systems currently available across Australia and help shape ...
G8 educator says goodbye to long hair to support Variety Foundation
The Sector - Freya Lucas - June 21, 2021Community Kids Thornton Educator Brooke Harper cut her hair for the first time in eight years as part of a broader fundraising effort for the Variety Foundation’s Hair With a Heart initiative. Ms Harper, who is employed by G8 Education, contacted the Foundation expressing her interest ...
Victorian childcare centres facing a staffing ‘disaster’
Herald Sun - Suzan Delibasic and Susie O'Brien - June 21, 2021A crippling national shortfall of up to 12,000 childcare educators has led to worrying numbers of unqualified staff caring for children, insiders say. The sector-wide early learning staff shortage has prompted the Andrews government ...
Affordable, quality ECEC remains out of reach in many wealthy countries, UNICEF says
The Sector - Freya Lucas - June 21, 2021Slovakia, the United States, Cyprus, and Switzerland joined Australia at the bottom of the table, which ranks countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) based on their national childcare and parental leave policies ...
NSW Budget 2021: $150m to give families free preschool
he Daily Telegraph - Linda Silmalis - June 20, 2021Families will be able to send their children to preschool for free next year with the state government to cover the cost. Almost 50,000 three to five-year-olds across the state will benefit from the “start strong free preschool” program that will save parents about $4000 per child each year ...
South Australia’s kindergarten enrolments fall for third straight year
The Advertiser - Rebecca Baker - June 19, 2021More flexible enrolment options, extra community services and an easing of red tape are being called for as South Australia’s public kindergarten enrolments drop to the lowest in years with a further dip in numbers expected in 2022. Parents have until the end of this month to register ...
Childcare centre planned for heritage-listed Ginninderra Village
RiotACT - Ian Bushnell - June 19, 2021The owner of the Ginninderra Village in Nicholls wants to open a 90-place childcare centre in the heritage precinct, saying there is unmet and growing demand in the area. Stan Waldren’s Ginninderra Village Pty Limited has applied for a lease variation to add ‘child care centre’ to the ...
Gap fee waiver extended until 31 December 2021 due to COVID-19 continuing to disrupt
The Sector - Freya Lucas - June 18, 2021The gap fee waiver provision, which allows services who are advised or directed to close by a local authority due to COVID-19, has been extended until 31 December 2021, the Department of Education, Skills and Employment announced recently. Originally the gap fee waiver provision ...
52% of families using childcare say it’s ‘hardly worth working’
Women's Agenda - Georgie Dent - June 18, 2021On the frequent occasions I find myself frustrated at the lack of progress on particular issues that I personally feel like I’ve been banging on about for over a decade I find myself thinking about the legions of women before me who have been agitating for the same change for ...
Busy Bees acquisition of Think to proceed as implementation agreement executed
The Sector - Jason Roberts - June 18, 2021Think Childcare has confirmed that the proposed acquisition of its businesses by Busy Bees Early Learning Australia Pty Ltd (Busy Bees) will proceed in a deal that values the Sydney based operator at around $195 million. Busy Bees will pay Think shareholders $3.20 per share ...
Ensuring transparency on child care fees
Mirage News - Press Release - June 18, 2021More than 500 child care providers will be removed from the Government’s Child Care Finder website under a Morrison Government crackdown on businesses that aren’t publicly reporting their fees. The website helps parents make informed decisions about child care ...
Intergenerational facility bridges the gap in a Western Australian first
Aged Care Guide - Liz Alderslade - June 17, 2021Oryx Communities new state-of-the-art facility will not only house residential aged care and seniors living residences, but will also host the services of Ngala through an Early Learning Centre. The launch of this initiative will be the beginning of one of the first intergenerational care models ...
New child care centre planned for South Ripley as part of staged development with service station, fast food outlets
The Courier Mail - Lachlan McIvor - June 18, 2021Plans for a new 135-place child care, which is set to form part of a staged development in the rapidly-growing Ripley Valley which also includes a service station and fast food outlets, have been submitted to Ipswich City Council. The proposed single-storey facility is stage two ...
Childcare hub finally on its way
The West - Warren Hately, Augusta Margaret River Times - June 18, 2021A group of Augusta women have finally won support from the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River Council to develop a new community childcare centre within the Augusta Recreation Centre. The project — which will support jobs and working families in the seaside hamlet, which has ...
Quadrant $650m Affinity buy puts childcare deals back in the hotseat
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd - June 17, 2021Private equity firm Anchorage Capital has proved there’s plenty of money to be made in Australia’s childcare sector, as a spate of new private capital players enter the industry. Anchorage scored one of its biggest-ever wins in terms of cash proceeds on Thursday morning, when it signed ...
