Child Care News
Childcare empire
Gold Coast Bulletin - Nick Nichols - December 19th, 2009Mr Scott will take over as managing director of Early Learning Services once shareholders approve the Gold Coast company's union with larger rival Payce Childcare...
ABC receivers want access to ASIC dossier
Sydney Morning Herald - Vanda Carson - December 18, 2009THE receivers for ABC Learning are seeking secret evidence that the corporate watchdog gathered to support its proposed lawsuit against the ABC founder, Eddy Groves, and...
Order in the creche - now for sense in the Senate
Sydney Morning Herald - Kirsty Needham - December 18, 2009Its capacity is 30 children - 25 permanent and five casual places. But MPs are quick to say it is not a total solution. Ms King, the first MP to use the creche regularly...
Nanny state holds appeal for Liberal heartland
Sydney Morning Herald - Dan Harrison - December 17, 2009AUSTRALIA must overcome its "ideological abhorrence" to nannies if it is to fully utilise the nation's female talent, the Opposition's new childcare spokeswoman...
Kindy programs for childcare
Courier Mail - December 15, 2009NEARLY 150 childcare centres have been awarded Government funding to run kindergarten programs under a pilot which aims to provide universal access to early...
Daycare reform to cost $1.6bn
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 14, 2009PARENTS will split a $1.6 billion childcare bill with taxpayers to improve the quality of daycare over the next decade. The costing -- which shows childcare...
For the love of children
Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - December 13, 2009IT HAS been a long time coming but the state and federal governments have finally agreed to higher standards for childcare centres...
Kindy fees set to spiral
Daily Telegraph - Jennifer Sexton - December 13, 2009Childcare Alliance Australia, representing private child-care operators, warned that this would force them to increase fees and reduce the number of places...
IR watchdog cut childcare staff wages by mistake
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 11, 2009THE Industrial Relations Commission made an error when it slashed low-paid childcare workers' wages by up to $92 a week. The Liquor Hospitality and...
Keeping it in the family
Brisbane Times - Tony Moore - December 11, 2009Eddy Groves' sister has told a Federal Court hearing in Brisbane she did not know how almost $23 million was paid to a company run by her husband in the lead-up...
ABC Learning Centres was warned fee hike could backfire
Herald Sun - Liam Walsh - December 10, 2009FORMER children's affairs minister and ABC Learning Centres director Larry Anthony warned the doomed childcare group last year that a hefty hike in fees...
Banks brace for big ABC losses
Sydney Morning Herald - Colin Kruger and Amelia Bentley - December 10, 2009THE impending sale of 678 ABC Learning centres to the not-for-profit GoodStart syndicate will almost certainly result in Australia''s big banks taking a bath...
Parents worry for childcare future
The Canberra Times - James Massola - 10 Dec, 2009But the Deakin centre is one of 26 left out of a deal designed to rescue 678 centres across the country after the collapse of ABC Learning in November...
Muddy kids are healthy kids, study shows
NEWS.com.au - December 10, 2009PARENTS who let their kids romp in the mud and eat food that has fallen on the floor could be helping to protect them against maladies like heart disease later in life...
Charity takeover of ABC Learning
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 10, 2009THE Rudd government will provide $15 million in taxpayer funds for a loan to help fund a charitable takeover of the nation's biggest childcare chain...