Child Care News
Gillard widens childcare probe
The Australian - Patricia Karvelas and Dennis Shanahan - November 12, 2008JULIA Gillard has sent forensic accountants into failed childcare group ABC Learning as part of a growing investigation into the company's collapse that includes the corporate watchdog...
ACCC stops proceedings against ABC Learning
Business Spectator - November 11, 2008By a staff reporter The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stopped proceedings against ABC Leanings Centres, after the troubled child care...
ABC reassures parents that services will be provided in 2009
Courier Mail - Michael Madigan and Liam Walsh - November 11, 2008EMBATTLED childcare giant ABC Learning Centres is trying to reassure parents it is making plans for services to be provided into next year...
ABC centres won't close this year - Gillard
NEWS.com.au - November 11, 2008ALL debt-stricken ABC Learning centres are expected to operate into the new year, federal Education Minister Julia Gillard said today...
Buyers sought for ABC Learning centres
NEWS.com.au - November 11, 2008Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard today called on the childcare sector to register their interest in the future operation of the centres...
New claims about ABC Learning
ABC Online - Simon Santow - November 11, 2008The Federal government is trying to keep the childcare centres of the collapsed company, ABC Learning, running. But now an industry insider has made serious allegations...
Investor doubted ABC's viability
Sydney Morning Herald - Vanda Carson - November 11, 2008TEMASEK, the Government of Singapore's investment fund and ABC Learning Centre's second biggest shareholder, expressed concern about the ongoing viability...
Unprofitable ABC Learning centres will shut
Daily Telegraph - Brad Watts - November 11, 2008CHILDCARE leaders will meet for crisis talks today after the Federal Government revealed vacancy rates, staffing and running costs will be considered by ABC Learning's receivers to determine...
ABC of better childcare
The Australian - Henry Ergas - November 11, 2008There is a compelling case for regulating the quality of childcare services, as already occurs, but a "Moscow on the Molonglo" approach to managing child care is likely to make matters worse rather than better...
Early Learning Services (ELY) 15c
The Australian - Tim Boreham - November 11, 2008THE lingering question from the ABC Learning fiasco is whether the listed childcare model works -- under any circumstances...
Defining the Grandma Effect
ABC News (USA) - Lauren Cox - November 10, 2008In the past few years, researchers have begun to study the "grandma effect": the unique psychological benefits of having grandparents care for a child when parents can't...
Greed sours enterprise
Courier Mail - Paul Syvret - November 10, 2008What must be remembered is that, in 21st-century Australia, child care is an essential social service. For countless thousands of Kevin Rudd's ubiquitous working families...
Business soars for private childcare centres
The Age - Stacey Lobo - November 10, 2008Privately owned child care centres have reported a surge in business, with parents scrambling to find a place for their children after the collapse of ABC Learing...
Child care company offers to buy ABC centres in Vic
ABC Online - November 10, 2008A not-for-profit Victorian child-care provider has offered to buy up to 40 centres operated by ABC Learning which went into administration last week...
Greens push for emergency child-care summit
ABC Online - November 10, 2008"It's not an appropriate contingency plan, what we need to be doing is engaging and calling together those service providers on the ground, the child-care...
