Child Care News
Children come first at new ABC, owners vow
Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - December 10, 2009PARENTS have been promised stability and higher quality care after a consortium of four charities won the bidding war for 678 ABC Learning Centres...
The bell tolls for profit reapers
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 10, 2009Once GoodStart takes charge of 678 ABC Learning centres next year, not-for-profit daycare operators will control 40 per cent of the market. Presently...
Computershare win in UK
The Australian - John Durie - December 9, 2009COMPUTERSHARE'S Chris Morris is on a roll, with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown reversing a previous decision on childcare vouchers. The original decision...
Mission Australia to buy ABC centres
The Age - Colin Kruger - December 9, 2009... confirmed that the not-for-profit syndicate lead by Mission Australia has been selected as the preferred buyer for the remaining 705 child care centres...
Child care too expensive, not enough places
Adelaidenow - Tory Shepherd - December 9, 2009MORE than 27000 Australian women who want to work are being kept out of the workforce because they cannot access childcare, latest figures show...
ABC Learning in 'financial turmoil' before collapse: court
Sydney Morning Herald - Amelia Bentley - December 8, 2009Financial turmoil in the Brisbane offices of business empire ABC Learning have been revealed at public examinations into the childcare operator's collapse...
Boost for childcare quality control
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 08, 2009PARENTS will pay up to $50 a week more for full-time childcare under sweeping quality improvements agreed by the Council of Australian Governments yesterday...
Receivers to unveil new owners at ABC
Sydney Morning Herald - Colin Kruger - December 8, 2009ABC Learning's receivers, led by Chris Honey of McGrathNicol, are expected to announce their preferred bidder for the remaining centres, and the not-for-profit...
Nurseries to be graded
Sydney Morning Herald - Dan Harrison - December 8, 2009CHILDCARE centres will be graded from unsatisfactory to excellent and forced to display their rating as part of a national push to raise standards...
$14m deal for ABC-linked childcare chain
NEWS.com.au - Liam Walsh - December 08, 2009A LISTED cashbox is financing the $C14 million ($14.5 million) buyout of an 11-centre Canadian childcare operation with links to ABC Learning...
Parents hit with $110 childcare hike
Herald Sun - Ben Packham - December 08, 2009Within 12 months, every childcare centre across Australia will have to have one carer for every four children aged under two. One staff member will be...
Leader promotes conservatives
The Australian - December 08, 2009Sharman Stone... has been dropped from immigration and citizenship and appointed to childcare, women services and youth...
Child care to get new national standards
Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Marszalek - December 7, 2009A compulsory set of childcare standards including lower staff-to-child ratios and a quality rating system for parents will be brought in nationwide next year...
Call to pay childcare rebate weekly
Sydney Morning Herald - Dan Harrison - December 7, 2009PRIVATE childcare providers are pressing the Federal Government to pay the rebate weekly to help parents cope with fee increases expected to flow from...
ABC salvage operation being kept under wraps
Sydney Morning Herald - Colin Kruger - December 7, 2009The receiver appointed to sell the unviable centres, PPB's Stephen Parbery, said his final report would not be made public until the remaining centres were sold...
