Child Care News
$125 a day to care for kid as childcare costs soar
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - March 26, 2010PARENTS are paying an average $100 a day for toddler childcare in Sydney's CBD, with the soaring charges far outstripping the Federal ...
ABC creditors to meet on wind-up
Herald Sun - March 25, 2010ABC Learning creditors will meet in Brisbane on Friday to decide whether to take heed of administrators' advice to wind up the group of companies. But the meeting...
Austock delays ABC Learning childcare company handover
The Australian - Andrew Fraser - March 25, 2010AUSTOCK, the company that originally underwrote the listing of failed childcare company ABC Learning is one of two delaying the handover of 678 childcare centres...
ABC Learning 'traded while insolvent'
Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - March 18, 2010CHILDCARE giant ABC Learning Centres traded while insolvent for at least five months in 2008, its administrators have determined in preliminary findings...
Labor promises children's minister
ABC Online - March 18, 2010The Tasmanian Premier, David David Bartlett, says a re-elected Labor Government would appoint a minister for children. He says the new portfolio would be...
paid maternity leave
Sydney Morning Herald - Danielle Teutsch - March 14, 2010PAID maternity leave is precious time when women can just focus on their families, says Roxanne Elliott, who founded the online childcare directory careforkids.com.au...
Abbott is all at sea with maternity leave
The Sunday Telegraph - Paul Howes - March 14, 2010One idea I've heard is extending some of the Child Care Tax Rebate to families who use non-centre-based childcare. This would have several beneficial outcomes...
Australia best for kids: expat survey
Sydney Morning Herald - March 11, 2010Respondents rated their adopted homes on quality of childcare, education, ease of integration, costs of raising children and time spent on outdoor...
Senate obstruction on baby leave? Hype and poppycock
The Age - Misha Schubert - March 11, 2010Sometimes politicians talk an awful lot of rot. To hear Jenny Macklin tell it, the Senate is poised to scuttle Australia's first paid parental leave scheme...
Baby leave is not a women's issue
The Age - Leslie Cannold - March 10, 2010By failing to talk about childcare and paid leave as something of critical importance to children, men and women, both political parties doom us to more of the same work/life crunch...
We must all pay for parental leave
Sydney Morning Herald - Julia Perry - March 10, 2010Australia is one of two OECD countries without a paid parental leave system. Most schemes meet between 80-100 per cent of the parent's wage, funded through a levy on...
EU extends parental leave to four months
BBC News (UK) - March 9, 2010The new EU directive is aimed at providing a better balance between work and family life by allowing parents to transfer most of their time off to each other...
Groves earnings figure 'way off the mark'
The Courier-Mail - Liam Walsh - March 09, 2010FORMER ABC Learning Centres boss Eddy Groves told bankers that raw earnings for 2009 would be $265 million - a forecast the childcare operator's new...
Childcare helps identify vulnerable children's needs
BBC News (UK) - March 09, 2010High-quality childcare helps identify the needs of vulnerable children early on, according to a new report. Ofsted inspectors visited 25 childminders...
Unions to push pay equity for women
The Australian - Ewin Hannan - March 04, 2010UNIONS are considering running cases to lift the wages of the female-dominated aged care and childcare sectors after ACTU president Sharan Burrow yesterday...
