Child Care News
Loud, proud and wrong
Melbourne Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - September 11, 2008Like most, I am not an advocate of child care for kids under six months, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it child abuse. If women choose to put their...
ASIC didn't act on ABC complaint
The Age - Colin Kruger - September 11, 2008In May 2006, a letter of complaint was mailed to ASIC questioning the value of child-care licences on ABC's balance sheet — which effectively accounts for...
Abuse reporting course goes online
ABC Regional Online - September 11, 2008It can be used by child care workers who cannot attend the face-to-face course, especially those in remote locations. Mr Mullighan says the online course...
Children in daycare less likely to develop asthma
CTV.ca (Canada) September 9, 2008If parents want to protect their kids from developing asthma later in life they should consider enrolling them in daycare, particularly before age one...
Director jumps off child-care board
The Age - Vanessa O'Shaughnessy - September 10, 2008STRUGGLING child-care company ABC Learning has lost one of its high-profile new directors before it could formalise the appointment...
Glitches, hitches, ditches
Sydney Morning Herald - Elizabeth Knight - September 10, 2008The fact is that even with banks and auditors crawling all over ABC, there are plenty of structural problems that must be addressed...
Shocking childhoods
On Line opinion - Dr Alice Hill - September 10, 2008...children in our community who would most benefit from long term access to high quality childcare have the least opportunity to use it...
ABC Learning Centres no closer to filing
Melbourne Herald Sun - Kerrie Sinclair - September 09, 2008ABC spokesman Andrew Barber yesterday said the company had not set a time for the release of its results and could not comment on the process involved in finalising...
SA childcare centres are under investigation
Adelaidenow - Lauren Novak - September 8, 2008CHILDCARE centres in South Australia are being investigated over staff ratios, unexplained injuries to children and staff using physical force and bad language...
Morris hits at 'brutal' babycare books
The Observer (UK) - Amelia Hill - September 7, 2008Babies are for nurturing, not breaking in, insists Naked Ape author in a new guide to parenting. Too many help books for parents advocated 'unnatural' and 'brutal' childcare techniques...
Think tank: Mums need help to stay at home
The Sunday Times (UK) - Iain Duncan Smith - September 7, 2008Professor Margot Sunderland, a child mental health expert on the commission, unambiguously stated that the quality of childcare has lifelong consequences...
Give new mums a year's leave
Sunday Telegraph - Elissa Lawrence - September 7, 2008Psychologist and best-selling author Steve Biddulph, an advocate of no childcare at all for children under one... national paid maternity scheme of at least 12 months...
Mem's loud call gives kids a voice
Adelaide Advertiser - September 7, 2008THE furore triggered by Mem Fox's comments likening full-time child care of newborns to child abuse is the debate we had to have...
Someone has to speak up for the babies
Melbourne Herald Sun - Mem Fox - September 06, 2008THE aim of my recent raw-nerve comment on child care was not to distress parents, it was merely to speak up for all the babies. In most debates about child care...
Operator C&K plans to cut nursery ratios next year
Courier Mail - Tanya Chilcott - September 06, 2008CHILD care is set for a shakeup with operator C&K saying it will cut ratios in its nurseries next year to one carer for every three babies...
