Child Care News
Child care has the chance to rise like the phoenix
The Age - Paul Slape - December 17, 2008It may be odd for a union leader to say that good can come from such a collapse, but there is now a real opportunity to reassess where we are heading, perhaps without the ideological blinkers attached...
Group wants ABC Learning control by March
ABC Online - December 15, 2008He has told ABC 702 Breakfast although making a profit is a long term goal of the takeover, maintaining child-care services is the group's first priority...
Push to boost childcare staffing
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 15, 2008CHILDCARE centres will have to hire more qualified staff or turn children away to comply with a proposed federal government ban on carers looking after more than three babies...
Receivers sitting on offers for ABC
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 15, 2008TWO THOUSAND potential buyers have flooded ABC Learning's receivers with expressions of interest to take over all or part of the failed childcare chain...
Shade cloth 'cancer risk' for children
NEWS.com.au - Tory Shepherd - December 15CHILDREN are being exposed to cancer-causing ultraviolet rays because of "gaping holes" in shadecloth design and installation, consumer group CHOICE warns...
Army of unpaid carers
Melbourne Herald Sun - Sarah Marinos - December 14, 2008MORE couples are turning to their parents to care for the grandchildren as working families struggle to find scarce and expensive child care...
Childcare group welcomes Govt action on UNICEF report
ABC Online - December 13, 2008Queensland's largest childcare provider has welcomed the Federal Government's response to a UNICEF report on child care. The organisation ranked Australia...
Child care third rate: Gillard
Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - December 13, 2008...Julia Gillard, said she was not surprised Australia's early childhood services were ranked so poorly, failing eight of the 10 international benchmarks...
Trust us parents, says ABC
Melbourne Herald Sun - Peter Jean - December 13, 2008THE beleaguered ABC Learning group has launched a campaign to persuade parents to enrol their children in 720 centres that are free of the risk of closure...
Union outrage over redundancies
The Age - Dan Harrison - December 13, 2008THE union representing ABC Learning workers is outraged that the failed company's banking syndicate is refusing to pay for the redundancies and entitlements of about 100 staff who will lose their jobs...
'Outrage warranted' after childcare failings highlighted
ABC Online - Alison Caldwell - December 12, 2008It also expresses concerns about Australia's reliance on corporate childcare. The Federal Government says it is already moving to address the problems...
Hope for ABC childcare families
ABC Online - Friday, 12 DecemberThere's better news for parents with children at the failed ABC childcare centres today with childcare providers jockeying for the right to take over hundreds of the company's centres...
Gillard defends childcare improvement plans
ABC Online - Alexandra Kirk - Friday, 12 DecemberThe Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education Julia Gillard says the Government is already moving to address serious shortcomings in Australia's childcare...
One-stop childcare model to save ABC Learning Centres
Courier Mail - Tanya Chilcott, Liliana Molina and Liam Walsh - December 12, 2008ONE-stop childcare centres based on a revolutionary British model are being proposed to help keep the 241 unviable ABC Learning Centres open...
Labor to open centres where ABC closes
The Australian - Natasha Bita - December 12, 2008THE federal Government plans to build childcare centres in the same neighbourhoods where ABC Learning wants to close them. Six of the 38 new "early learning and care centres" to be built...
