Child Care News

ABC Learning Centres says childcare access will remain
NEWS.com.au - Liam Walsh - November 05, 2008

ABC Learning Centres is expected to be placed into voluntary administration today even as it reassures parents they will still have access to childcare...

Parents worried about ABC
Courier Mail - Liliana Molina - November 05, 2008

SPECULATION about the future of Australia's biggest childcare chain, ABC Learning Centres, continued last night, causing concern among client parents...

ABC childcare centres unlikely to close, union says
ABC Online - November 5, 2008

The union representing childcare workers at centres run by ABC Learning says parents will not be left in the lurch if the troubled company collapses...

ABC Learning 'talking with stakeholders'
The Age - November 5, 2008

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the company said it was continuing discussions with stakeholders, including banks and the federal government, to secure the future of its operations...

McGrath seen as ABC Learning receiver
The Australian - John Durie - November 05, 2008

MCGRATH Nicol is likely to be appointed by the banks as the receiver of beleaguered childcare operator ABC Learning Centres. Rival forensic accounting firm Ferrier Hodgson...

Receivers to take over ABC Learning
The Australian - John Durie - November 05, 2008

ABC Learning, the childcare centre operator that looks after 100,000 Australian infants and toddlers, is today expected to be swept into receivership...

Julia Gillard ready to step in if ABC Learning falls
The Australian - Samantha Maiden - November 05, 2008

THE Government is ready to step in to assist families if Australia's largest childcare provider, ABC Learning, goes into receivership today...

Qld Govt says 'business as usual' for ABC childcare
ABC Online - November 05, 2008

The Queensland Government says it is business as usual at ABC Learning, despite speculation the childcare provider is on the brink of collapse...

The grandparents always know best
The Times (UK) - David Rose - November 3, 2008

The grandparent who plays babysitter is not only the cheapest and most easily exploited form of childcare but also the safest, research suggests...

Eddy staggered by wife's legal action
The Australian - Natasha Bita - November 03, 2008

TOPPLED childcare kingpin Eddy Groves lashed out at his estranged wife, Le Neve, yesterday after she sued him for $44million. Mr Groves said he could not believe the mother of his...

Eddy Groves gets hit with huge lawsuit
Melbourne Herald Sun - Kay Dibben - November 02, 2008

Dr Le Neve Groves is suing her husband and co-founder of ABC Learning Centres and two margin lenders for $64.2 million she says she is owed...

ABC operations feel pinch
The Age - Colin Kruger - November 1, 2008

Another agency offering temporary staff to ABC, Select Education, withdrew its staff yesterday, citing issues at the child-care provider...

What's delaying the ABC audit?
Business Spectator - Robert Gottliebsen - October 31, 2008

Every day that goes by without ABC announcing its results and revealing what has happened fuels the most incredible rumours in the accounting and legal professions as well as the market...

ABC Learning delays results a third time
Sydney Morning Herald - October 31, 2008

Childcare provider ABC Learning Centres has delayed its annual results for fiscal 2008 for the third time this year...

ABC Learning, 123 Careers battle over 8000 staff
The Australian - Natasha Bita - October 30, 2008

CHILDCARE giant ABC Learning Centres and its staffing agency 123 Careers will battle for control over 8000 staff in Queensland's Supreme Court tomorrow...