Child Care News
HomeCo flags $1b raising for healthcare funds
Financial Review - Nick Lenaghan - April 13, 2021Listed fund manager Home Consortium is targeting a $1 billion initial equity raising for its proposed healthcare real estate offering, double what it had flagged only two months ago. The expanded capital raise will (invest) in portfolio of assets in key sub-sectors including hospitals, childcare ...
105 Beaudesert Rd Moorooka: Pre-1946 character home razed by childcare centre developer
Courier Mail - Alex Treacy - April 13, 2021A Brisbane southside councillor says he is “appalled” at the razing of a pre-1946 character home on the site of a new 115-space childcare centre, despite plans lodged with council indicating the residence would only be “partially demolished”. Previous architectural renders lodged by ...
Brindabella Christian College slapped with childcare conditions as feds called in over non-compliance
The Canberra Times - Sarah Lansdown - April 13, 2021Education Minister Yvette Berry has urged her counterpart to pull into line a high-profile independent school that has come under scrutiny from multiple government agencies...
More than 40 WA childcare centres sanctioned for safety breaches
Nine.com.au - Elizabeth Creasy - April 12, 2021More than 40 childcare centres in Western Australia have been sanctioned for serious safety breaches. A 9News investigation can reveal the state government has taken enforcement action against 42 childcare or Out of School Hours Care centres since 2019. The sanctions range from...
After six years of trying, this regional town still has no child care
ABC News - Gary-Jon Lysaght and Georgia Roberts - April 12, 2021General practitioner Kean Chen's wife is a doctor, just like him, but a lack of childcare services in their small town means she can't work full time. "She could work more, but there's no child care," says Dr Chen. The Chens live in Crystal Brook, a small farming community in regional South Australia...
Council exploring alternative models for long day care services
Mirage News - April 12, 2021Cumberland City Council’s nine long day care centres are ripe for revitalisation, with fresh new models being explored to improve quality and efficiencies. It was decided at Wednesday night’s Council meeting to re-tender with a more refined brief to explore options for ...
Mayfield Childcare Limited (ASX:MFD) Insiders Increased Their Holdings
Simply Wall St - April 11, 2021The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Mayfield Childcare: In the last twelve months, the biggest single purchase by an insider was when insider Malcolm Ross bought AU$71k worth of shares at a price of AU$0.69 per share. We do like to see buying, but this purchase ...
How safe is your child? See how your childcare centre compares on safety here
Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - April 11, 2021More than 500 childcare centres and kinders statewide aren’t meeting federal standards of care. Child safety, staffing, supervision and management of emergencies are among problem areas for the centres. It comes a decade after a new ratings system was brought in ...
Orange's Newstead approved to become $2.3 million child care centre
Central Western Daily - David Fitzsimons - April 11, 2021A $2.3 million child care centre has been approved for the former Newstead Bowling Club building on Hill Street...
Childcare worker is charged with assaulting a two-year-old boy under her care 'on multiple occasions' at a suburban day care centre
Daily Mail Australia - Eliza McPhee - April 10, 2021A childcare worker has been charged after she allegedly assaulted a toddler under her care on 'multiple occasions' in the space of a week. Police allege the 26-year-old woman assaulted the two-year-old boy between March 11 and March 17 at the daycare centre in Castle Hill ...
The rewards of working with children
The RiotACT - Communities@Work - April 10, 2021When Kavita Ogale left behind her former job to follow her dream of working with children, the rewards were surprisingly greater than she had ever imagined, and she says the infectious laughs and cuddles that greet her at work every day are the cherry on top. Kavita moved ...
It’s time for a women’s budget
The Australian Business Review - Glenda Korporaal - April 9, 2021Chief Executive Women president Sam Mostyn says there has never been a better time for the federal government to deliver a budget for women. CEW’s budget submission includes calls for improved federal assistance for childcare, particularly for lower-paid women ...
National women’s summit to address affordable childcare, pay gap
Brisbane Times - Lydia Lynch - April 9, 2021The superannuation pay gap between men and women and affordable childcare will be discussed at a special national cabinet meeting to be hosted in Darwin in July to lay the groundwork for a larger summit. A national women’s summit, proposed by Queensland Premier ...
Child finds asbestos at West Lakes Kindergarten and Early Childhood Centre’s playground
The Advertiser - Elizabeth Henson - April 8, 2021Parents are being urged to seek medical advice if they are concerned their child may have come into contact with asbestos after pieces of the hazardous material were found in the playground of a western suburbs kindergarten. A four-year-old child attending the West Lakes Kindergarten...
Canberra childcare centres put on notice for safety breaches
RiotACT - Michael Weaver - April 8, 2021Childcare centres in Canberra have been put on notice after WorkSafe ACT issued 179 improvement notices and two prohibition notices for work health and safety breaches between November last year and March 2021. The prohibition notices were issued due to safety risks from exposed ...
