Child Care News
Broken childcare, insulation promises humiliate PM
The Age - Michelle Grattan and Dan Harrison - April 23, 2010It has dropped its plan to build 260 childcare centres - saying figures show there are enough places. The 38 centres under way will be completed...
Hours in childcare on the climb
The Australian - Stephen Lunn - April 23, 2010WORKING parents are leaving children in childcare centres for many more hours each week than five years ago. New figures show children now spend an average...
Smacking causes aggression, study shows
The Daily Telegraph - Kate Sikora April 23, 2010SMACKING disobedient three-year-olds can turn children into bullies before they reach school, with new research suggesting corporal punishment makes kids aggressive...
New staff ratios mean fewer childcare places
The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - April 22, 2010NEW national childcare standards will lead to the loss of thousands of places in centres across Australia, industry representatives say...
Researchers launch early education study
Sydney Morning Herald - April 20, 2010They'll look at how children develop in a range of environments including childcare centres, kindergartens, family day-care services and in-home care...
$100 a day per child - and rising
Sydney Morning Herald - Danielle Teutsch - April 18, 2010‎PAYING $100 a day for childcare in Sydney's inner suburbs is fast becoming the norm, fuelling calls for the federal government to pay the childcare rebate weekly...
Childcare centre now closed
The Age - Carol Nader - April 15, 2010A CHILDCARE centre that breached state regulations closed down last year, after the state government ordered it to improve the quality of care...
Time to tackle the elephant in the creche
Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Irvine - April 14, 2010Nearly a quarter of a million Australian women want more work but are not available or looking for it because they are caring for children, according to...
It's men who are increasingly left holding the baby
The Observer (UK) - Jamie Doward - Sunday 11 April 2010The number of fathers in the UK staying at home to look after their children has risen 10 times in the past 10 years. This was the headline figure...
Childcare key to mums returning to work
Sydney Morning Herald - Peter Martin - April 10, 2010IT HAS taken Treasury research to establish it beyond reasonable doubt, but childcare matters enormously to mothers considering whether to return to work...
Early rise in childcare fees
The Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - April 08, 2010CHILDCARE centres in NSW will have to employ extra staff to care for the under twos from January 1 next year - 12 months before the rest of the country...
Pay Granny to nanny: union backs Coalition
The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - April 08, 2010GRANDPARENTS who help out as nannies would be eligible for the full childcare subsidy under a plan being investigated by Tony Abbott''s Coalition...
Libs eye nanny subsidies
The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - April 03, 2010The Coalition is exploring policy options for a new childcare approach, including extending benefit payments to all in-home carers, including nannies...
Families could claim for nannies under Coalition proposal
Sydney Morning Herald - Lenore Taylor - April 2, 2010FAMILIES could get a government rebate for half the cost of nannies, au pairs or grandparents paid as child-minders under a policy being developed by the...
Early Learning to buy 10 more centres
News.com.au - April 01, 2010CHILDCARE operator Early Learning Services plans to acquire 10 childcare centres and pay for it through a capital raising. The acquisitions are aimed...
