Child Care News
Gillard defends $22m ABC rescue
The Australian - Sean Parnell - November 10, 2008As parents wait for any news on childcare places for next year and beyond, and creditors show similar anxiety over money owed by ABC Learning...
Julia Gillard slams Malcolm Turnbull over ABC childcare
Daily Telegraph - Alison Rehn and James McCullough - November 10, 2008DEPUTY Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull are in a slanging match over 120,000 children in childcare...
Kinders are in super market after all
Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - November 10, 2008An article in Putting Children First, a journal published by the federally-funded National Childcare Accreditation Council, argues superhero play leads to complex, imaginative games...
Turnbull condemns ABC bailout
Sydney Morning Herald - Kerry-Anne Walsh and Rachel Browne - November 9, 2008Under the Federal Government's rescue package, taxpayers will fork out $22 million to prop up the child-care giant until December 31...
400 ABC Learning centres may shut their doors next year
Courier Mail - Michael Madigan, David Earley, Matthew Ogg and Liam Walsh - November 08, 2008Ms Gillard said preliminary data from the receivers showed about 40 per cent of ABC Learning's 1040 centres were believed to be unprofitable...
Shareholders demand ABC Learning compensation
ABC Online - November 8, 2008The Australian Shareholders' Association says it does not accept shareholders will be the last in line from any break-up of ABC Learning Centres...
Eight banks going all out to hold ABC together
The Age - Tom Arup and Dan Harrison - November 8, 2008EIGHT banks with exposure to ABC Learning have banded together to ensure the failed child-care company keeps operating as normal, in part because they hope for a sale...
Eddy cops it as ABC blame game begins
Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - November 08, 2008IN the blame game over the collapse of ABC Learning Centres, co-founder Eddy Groves says he's behaved ethically...
Women tolled warning bells but no one wanted to listen
Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - November 8, 2008For some time ABC Learning Centres had troubled the child-care experts. The company's baffling balance sheets did not make sense and the labyrinthine...
We pay for childcare domination
Daily Telegraph - Angela Saurine - November 08, 2008Up until the 1990s, most childcare in Australia was offered by non-profit, community-based organisations. These days, about three quarters of childcare centres are operated privately...
Govt urged to buy embattled ABC Learning
ABC Online - November 7, 2008The not-for-profit child care sector is urging the Federal Government to buy ABC Learning, which has been put into voluntary administration and has revealed it is $1 billion in debt...
Community operators keen to step into ABC void
ABC Online - November 7, 2008The community childcare sector should take over the running of ABC Learning centres in the wake of the company's collapse, a community childcare advocate...
Government to give $22m to keep ABC Learning going
NEWS.com.au - November 07, 2008THE Federal Government will give up to $22 million to keep ABC Learning childcare centres open until the end of the year. Education Minister Julia Gillard said...
Gillard flags childcare rethink
ABC Online - Emma Rodgers - November 7, 2008Education Minister Julia Gillard has indicated the Government may seek tighter controls over the childcare industry in the wake of yesterday's collapse of ABC Learning...
Union calls for ABC employee rescue package
ABC Online - November 7, 2008The union representing child care workers is calling for a rescue package to ensure that employees of failed child care provider ABC Learning receive their entitlements...
