Child Care News
Have you retrained to work in early years settings or education?
The Guardian - March 20, 2021We’d like to hear from people who have moved into childcare or educational professions during lockdown. Have you retrained to work in early years settings or education since lockdown? For many parents, the end of home schooling was a cause for celebration. But for others...
Reggio Emilia-inspired childcare centre to launch in central Wagga
The Daily Advertiser - Catie McLeod - March 19, 2021Plans for an alternative childcare centre in the heart of the city's central business district have been revealed in a development application lodged with council...
Learning through play represents the best long-term value for helping kids, regardless of background
The Sector - Bo Stjerne Thomsen, Jo Dowd - March 19, 2021The LEGO Foundation’s new report, Learning Through Play: Increasing Impact, Reducing Inequality, gathers evidence from early childhood programmes in 18 countries across the world to show how important the presence of play is in efforts to reduce inequality in learning ...
C&K therapy dog Frankie says relax…and settle into Kindergarten, starring in new book
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 19, 2021More than 330 C&K Kindergarten and childcare services across Queensland will soon be enjoying stories about the adventures of lovable therapy dog Frankie, thanks to the hard work of C&K Walkerston Community Kindergarten teacher and Director, Peta Baxter. Ms Baxter worked with ...
Weston Creek Children’s Centre faces ‘imminent’ closure, staff say
Daily Telegraph - Craig Dunlop - March 18, 2021A Canberra childcare is likely facing “imminent” closure, likely leaving hundreds of working parents scrambling to find spots for their kids. Police last month said the government regulator was working to see if the centre could remain open, after former director, Emma Louise Morton...
Rothschild pitches Provincial Education to growth PE funds
Financial Review - Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd - March 18, 2021It seems like private equity owns half of big Australian childcare groups – and now they’re being courted for one of New Zealand’s big players. On the block is Provincial Education Group, which was set up in 2013, has 66 centres in 30 Kiwi cities and towns and 4690 places...
Entry of the big banks puts BNPL on regulation path
The Australian - John Durie - March 18, 2021Child care is a big one with CEW urging an increase in the subsidy from 85 to 95 per cent for families earning under $80,000 with 1 per cent deducted for every $4000 above that. This means a family earning $180,000 would receive 70 per cent. Child care is the key to increasing...
Large ECEC service located at Waterlea residential estate sells for $5.2 million
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 18, 2021A 136-place early childhood education and care (ECEC) service located at the entrance to the newly developed Waterlea residential estate in Queensland has sold for $5.2 million to Peak Equities, a Melbourne based commercial property syndicator. The sales campaign...
Queensland builds on legacy towards Closing the Gap
The Queensland Cabinet Media Statement - Minister for Seniors and Disability Services and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, The Honourable Craig Crawford - March 18, 2021“The Queensland Government’s investment of $9.3 million over four years as part of the National Closing the Gap Agreement will help strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled services across key areas, including early childhood care and development...
Treasurer dares Labor on tax cuts
Financial Review - Phillip Coorey - March 18, 2021On childcare, it recommends changes not dissimilar to those being promoted by Labor. It suggests a 95 per cent subsidy for lower income households and changing the taper rate so families with incomes of up to $450,000 receive some subsidy. It recommends increasing the government-funded...
Business backs lift in childcare leave
The Australian - Patrick Commins - March 17, 2021Big business is championing a major lift in support for working parents via longer government-funded parental leave of up to 26 weeks and greater taxpayer funding of childcare, arguing this would encourage more women into the workforce and drive faster economic growth...
Vic services reminded to prepare for Information Sharing and Family Violence reform
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 17, 2021From the commencement of Term Two, in approximately one month’s time, authorised Victorian early childhood education and care (ECEC) professionals will be able to share information about children’s wellbeing and safety with other authorised professionals who work with children...
Childcare costs are hardly child’s play
Sydney Morning Herald - Nina Hendy - March 16, 2021Families had a taste of free childcare last year as the nation plunged into a coronavirus-induced recession, allowing more cash to be diverted into other much-needed areas of family budgets. Now, economists and other childcare experts are calling on the federal government to rebuild...
Utes alone won’t save the economy: BCA
Financial Review - Phillip Coorey - March 17, 2021Corporate Australia is calling for the government’s business investment allowance to be expanded and extended ...It also wants to change childcare and paid parental leave to remove barriers to women returning to work by changing the child care subsidy, paid parental leave and ...
ALE puts $21m pub offering on the market
Financial Review - Larry Schlesinger - March 16, 2021Australia’s largest pub landlord, ASX-listed ALE Property Group, has put four of its smaller pubs in Queensland and Victoria up for sale amid very strong demand from private investors for long-leased blue-chip investments. The line-up will include seven childcare centre investments...
