Child Care News
YMCA makes play for ABC Learning child centres
Herald Sun - Ben Packham - November 28, 2008THE YMCA has launched a bid to take over about 100 ABC Learning Centres, including 50 in Victoria. The not-for-profit agency, which operates 550 childcare...
Fears over ABC childcare centres sparks rescue plan
Courier Mail - Tanya Chilcott and Liam Walsh - November 27, 2008FEARS of a shortage of childcare places in Queensland next year if some ABC Learning Centres shut down have sparked a massive contingency plan. Childcare Queensland...
Future of 60 Qld-based ABC Learning centres uncertain
ABC - November 27, 2008Australia's largest state childcare organisation, Childcare Queensland, has welcomed the announcement ABC Learning's receivers about the future of the company's childcare centres...
CFK Childcare to sell 32 centres
The Age - November 27, 2008The receivers of Australia's second largest childcare group, CFK Childcare Centres Ltd, are selling 32 centres, with an advertising campaign to begin on Friday...
ABC's receiver won't commit on unlisted centres
Sunrise - November 27, 2008Chris Honey from McGrathNicol, the appointed receiver for ABC Learning Centres, has told Sunrise he understands the concern of parents but cannot be certain what will happen...
30000 ABC child care kids could lose places
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - November 26, 2008PARENTS of 80000 children using ABC Learning childcare centres have been told their centres will remain open but another 386 centres are still under review...
Child-care group has not sought help
Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - November 26, 2008NO FINANCIAL assistance has been sought from the Federal Government by the child-care organisation CFK, which last week became the second chain to go into...
Paid maternity leave scheme appears to be dead in the water
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - November 25, 2008THE paid maternity leave scheme appears to be dead in the water with even the minister in charge of the status of women warning it may be put off as the country can't afford it...
ABC Learning employees lobby for entitlements
ABC Online - November 25, 2008ABC Learning childcare workers and their union are in Canberra to lobby the Federal Government to guarantee their entitlements. The biggest player in the...
Greens call for child care sector inquiry
ABC Online - November 25, 2008The Greens say a Senate inquiry is needed to set out the future of childcare in Australia. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will introduce a motion to the Senate ...
Empty playroom at ABC
Sydney Morning Herald - Michael Pascoe - November 24, 2008With the exception of Victoria, state governments do not allow the transfer of child care licences. The only way the ABC Learning "business" can be sold is if a single party buys the whole thing...
Firm CFK accused of cutting back quality of care
Daily Telegraph - November 24, 2008PRIVATE childcare operator CFK has been accused of slashing standards of care for children in the months before it went into administration...
Tim Vollmer's son Uriah left at Penrith's Nepean Pre-School alone
Daily Telegraph - Tim Vollmer - November 24, 2008THE shocking state of Australia's childcare system has been revealed in the most personal way, with my 18-month-old son left abandoned by staff inside a locked centre...
Parents demand lock-up changes at childcare centres
Daily Telegraph - Rhett Watson - November 24, 2008CALLS have been made for the Government to immediately review lock-up procedures for childcare outlets after a second case of a child being left in an empty centre...
Future of childcare uncertain
Inside Business (ABC TV) - Kathy Swan - November 23, 2008This week the nation's second largest child-care group CFK joined its bigger role model ABC Learning in the hands of the corporate undertakers...
