Child Care News
4 ASX real estate shares going ex-dividend this week
The Motley Fool - Kerry Sun - March 29, 2021Charter Hall Social Infrastructure maintains a portfolio focused on the childcare industry. The company believes that there will be a strong recovery in childcare attendances as COVID-19 becomes a lesser issue. It also highlights the bi-partisan government support for continued ...
COVID live updates: Brisbane goes into lockdown as schools close following four new cases of community transmission
ABC News - Dan Smith - March 29, 2021The Queensland government declares Brisbane a COVID-19 hotspot, with the city to go into lockdown this afternoon after four more cases of community transmission are detected. Those four new cases are among 10 recorded in Queensland, with Brisbane to go into a three-day lockdown...
Already badly off, single parents went dramatically backwards during COVID.
The Conversation - Tom Crowley, Danielle Wood, Esther Suckling - Grattan Institute - March 29, 2021Single parents with dependent children — eight out of ten of them women — were far more likely than others to lose work at the height of the pandemic and are far more likely to still be out of work now. Even before COVID, many were in financial distress. Single parents’ paid hours fell ...
Surge in RSV cases detected in Queensland childcare, aged care facilities amid COVID testing
ABC Radio Brisbane - Antonia O'Flaherty - March 29, 2021The number of children and teenagers admitted to Queensland hospitals with a potentially life-threatening virus has more than doubled with outbreaks of respiratory syncytial virus spreading across Queensland childcare centres. The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a contagious...
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese unveils Labor’s strategy for next election
Herald Sun - Tom Minear - March 29, 2021New parents could take six months off at full pay under Labor’s long-term plan to revolutionise paid parental leave. Anthony Albanese has told the Herald Sun the time is right to examine improvements to the “breakthrough” Labor reform, a decade after it was introduced. Under ...
Lowy-backed Assembly seals childcare deal; readies raising
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd - March 28, 2021Diversified property investor Assembly Funds Management is gearing up to front investors for an equity top-up, after buying a bunch of Sydney-based childcare centres. The six childcare centres Assembly has bought are located in Sydney suburbs Marsden Park, Riverstone ...
Green pledge to tax billionaires to pay for free education, childcare
The Courier Mail - Michael Wray, The Sunday Mail (QLD) - March 28, 2021The Greens are coming after Australia’s billionaires with a massive wealth tax to fund free education and childcare and a job for “everyone who wants one”. Greens leader Adam Bandt will today release the controversial party’s 15-point policy platform for the upcoming federal election ...
Gummy Bears laced with LSD found in police raid on former childcare worker
The Courier Mail - Patrick Billings, The Sunday Mail (QLD) - March 28, 2021Gummy bears laced with LSD, suspected cocaine and a hydroponic set up have landed a former childcare worker in court after a police raid in Wynnum. Rachel Louise Strong, 25, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning on multiple drug charges and applied for bail ...
Mother of 3yo locked on daycare bus for 90 minutes speaks out
Mother of 3yo locked on daycare bus for 90 minutes speaks outThe Courier Mail - Erin Smith, Caboolture Shire Herald - March 26, 2021 When she waved to her bubbly three-year-old son through the window of the daycare bus as it drove out the driveway on November 12, 2019 she had no idea that in a few short hours the day would turn into the worst ...
Former childcare employer of Bronte John Ciracovitch assisting police with investigations
The Advertiser - Ben Cameron - March 26, 2021A former employer of a childcare worker accused of sex offences is assisting police with its investigation, a letter to parents has revealed. Bronte John Ciracovitch appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday where a suppression order on his identity was revoked. Ciracovitch...
Berry Patch Kellyville Ridge: Arianna Maragol death, criminal hearing delayed
The Daily Telegraph - Kate Lockley, Blacktown Advocate - March 26, 2021The parents whose daughter died at a childcare centre in Sydney’s north west will have a longer wait for answers after a delay in criminal proceedings. Jozef Maragol and Anet Eyvazians have been searching for closure for two and a half years since their daughter, Arianna...
Labor plans to remove 'biggest disincentives' in the childcare system if elected
Sky News - March 26, 2021Shadow Early Childhood Education Minister Amanda Rishworth says Labor’s proposal to increase the childcare subsidy and remove the annual cap will allow more families to take up the service. “What we’ve proposed in the short term is to increase the subsidy up to 90% for our lowest ...
Glen Iris childcare: Little Lane Early Learning to open on Malvern Rd
Herald Sun - Jordy Atkinson - March 25, 2021A behemoth childcare centre has been given the green light to be built in Glen Iris despite traffic and noise concerns of neighbouring residents. Little Lane Early Learning Centre’s proposal to build a four-storey facility with space for 172 children on Malvern Rd was knocked back ...
Grow to learn, Learn to grow
NSW Government - EducationOur awareness campaign ‘Grow to learn, Learn to grow’ helps families to understand the benefits and how to recognise quality in early childhood education and school aged care services. The campaign’s call to action directs audiences to use a new finder tool developed to address ...
Are you ready for Early Learning Matters Week 2021?
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 25, 2021During the last week of July 2021, early childhood educators, parents, carers and community leaders around Australia will come together to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of early learning as part of the fourth annual Early Learning Matters (ELM) Week.
