Child Care News
Rudd and Gillard's wins, stuff-ups
Herald Sun - July 16, 2010*Plan for 260 new childcare centres axed - Dumped 2007 election promise to build 260 childcare centres on school grounds to avoid the "dreaded double drop off"...
Major law firms in bidding war on parental leave
The Australian - Nicola Berkovic - July 16, 2010"The cost of childcare and the lack of deductibility, together with the fact that rebates are for good reason targeted at lower and middle-income women...
Union attacks coalition childcare review
Sydney Morning Herald - July 15, 2010Opposition childcare spokeswoman Sharman Stone says fees will rise and centres will close if the government goes ahead with plans to lift quality standards...
PM warns of cuts in 'lean' campaign
The Australian - Joe Kelly - July 15, 2010The Prime Minister dismissed an ideological "free-market" approach to the delivery of key services including hospitals, aged care facilities, childcare centres...
Family First - Don't believe the major political parties on Child Care
Australia.TO - July 15, 2010Family First Leader Senator Steve Fielding says you can't trust the two major parties when it comes to childcare. Senator Fielding''s comments came after the...
Libs promise swift action on childcare rebates
The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - July 15, 2010THE Coalition has vowed to deliver weekly childcare rebate payments to parents months earlier than Labor. The move came as the pre-election campaigning...
Rescuing centres from financial disaster
The Australian - Glenda Korporaal - July 15, 2010McGRATHNICOL partners Chris Honey and Jason Ireland still remember the call that was to dominate their lives for the next 18 months. In October 2008, they were called to...
More control over hours the most important factor for working women
Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - July 15, 2010The survey of 1700 childcare workers and dental assistants found that having the ability to reduce or vary work hours, and to control start and finishing...
All childhood obesity programs are not created equal, study finds
Los Angeles Times - Jeannine Stein - July 14, 2010This group included 12000 children in preschools, daycare facilities, homes and maternal and child health services. After three years, the prevalence of...
Household shift has politicians perplexed
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - July 13, 2010Childcare subsidies, increased family tax benefits and paid parental leave, the policy fare of recent election campaigns, are meaningless to people who are childless...
Why is Labor ignoring child care cost blowouts?
Australia.TO - Dr Sharman Stone - July 13, 2010For the sake of working families the Gillard Labor Government must do better with child care costs than its promise to pay child care rebate fortnightly in a year's time...
Childcare rebate changes ease home budget pain
Sydney Morning Herald - Kirsty Needham - July 10, 2010FAMILIES can opt to have the childcare rebate paid fortnightly from next year or paid directly to a childcare centre to reduce fees, the federal government says...
Fortnightly childcare rebates hailed
The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - July 10, 2010JULIA Gillard has tried to win over families, promising parents they will get childcare rebate payments fortnightly from July 1 next year. The move to ease cost-of-living...
Childcare sector is not as simple as ABC
Sydney Morning Herald - Carolyn Cummins - July 10, 2010THE collapse and consequent change in ownership of the former ABC Learning Group has opened up opportunities for other operators in the childcare sector but finding locations...
Year 7 school switch gets the nod
Courier Mail - Tanya Chilcott - July 09, 2010... and private schools raise the possibility of establishing more kindergartens on their sites - signalling a potential battle with the childcare sector...
