Child Care News
Understanding the importance of literacy skills in early learning – a crucial role of educators
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 5, 2021New Zealand early childhood lecturers Chelsea Bracefield and Fiona Woodgate have recently published an article investigating a range of strategies to support educators to foster oral, written and visual literacies, encouraging them to make meaning from contexts and communicate ...
Workplace bullying in the early childhood sector
The Sector - Christa Ludlow - March 5, 2021Despite the early childhood sector being a profession based on foundations of caring and nurturing, the sector is not immune to instances of bullying, which can happen to people at any level, from front line teachers and educators, right through to management. Workplace bullying can have ...
Evolve Education Group announces acquisitions and intention to resume dividends
Financial Review - March 5, 2021Listed New Zealand and Australian childcare and education centre operator Evolve Education Group Limited (ASX/NZX:EVO) announces that it has contracted to acquire 10 childcare centres in Australia with total licenced capacity of 816 children per day. All contracts are conditional upon ...
Anchorage seeks fresh debt for Affinity Education business
The Australian Business Review - Bridget Carter - March 4, 2021Anchorage Capital Partners is hiring an investment bank to explore a move to secure new debt for its $700 million-odd childcare business Affinity Education as it weighs up whether to put the business up for sale. The understanding is that Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and the Royal Bank ...
Too much screen time delays school readiness
Mirage News - March 4, 2021Too much screen time and a penchant for computers is playing havoc with children’s school readiness, as new research from the University of South Australia shows that modern lifestyles are influencing our young generation’s prevalence of developmental delay. Conducted by UniSA ...
No longer any ‘cookie cutter’ approaches to early learning, Edge CEO says
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 4, 2021Annie Bryce, CEO of early childhood education and care approved provider, Edge Early Learning, has recently spoke out about the need to ensure that providers of early learning individualise their service offerings to meet the needs of local communities, saying “there is no ‘cookie cutter’ ...
Childcare centre numbers bounce back, report finds
Courier Mail - Stephanie Bennett - March 3, 2021Queensland childcare centres are bouncing back from their near-collapse at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, to a stronger position than before, new research has revealed. Occupancy rates at Queensland centres are above the national average, with a report from Early Years Research...
Emma Morton: Weston Creek Children’s Centre fallout continues
The Daily Telegraph - Craig Dunlop - March 3, 2021The Canberra childcare centre director accused of fleecing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the not-for-profit centre she worked at for more than 20 years is “broken” and a “shell of herself” since being locked up on remand last week, a former colleague says. Weston Creek Children’s...
Sydney childcare centre workers awarded $60k by Fair Work Commission
The Daily Telegraph - Mitchell Van Homrigh - March 3, 2021A pair of Sydney childcare workers have won more than $60,000 after they were unfairly sacked. The women were dismissed four years after their employer claimed they had engaged in inappropriate child caring. The two women - Asiye Oz and Yildiz Kosaroglu - were awarded $27,762 and...
Bunya Childcare: Maree Miller pleads guilty after boy burned
The Daily Telegraph - Joel Erickson, The Blue Mountains News - March 2, 2021The director of a childcare centre has told a court she is planning to resign from her position after a boy suffered bad burns in an incident at her Blue Mountains centre. Maree Nicole Miller, 54, of Kurrajong, faced Penrith Local Court on Thursday after the incident at Bunya Childcare Centre...
Lessons in Excellence – Scone preschool The Yellow Cottage gives insights into practice
The Sector - Freya Lucas - March 2, 2021Scone early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider and excellent rated service, The Yellow Cottage, has participated in a question and answer session with the New South Wales Department of Education, sharing more about how its philosophy of connection, positive relationships ...
Mayfield Childcare Notice of Annual General Meeting
Financial Review - March 1, 2021The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders to which this Notice of Meeting relates will be held at Suite 2, Ground Floor, 207-213 Waverley Road, Malvern East VIC 3145 on Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 10.30am (AEST) ...
Mayfield Childcare Dividend Reinvestment Plan Price
Financial Review - March 1, 2021Mayfield Childcare Limited (ASX: MFD) advises that, for the purposes of the Company’s final dividend from the operating results for the year ended 31 December 2020, the application price under the Dividend Reinvestment Plan has been determined as $0.90 ...
‘Bill now, pay later’ start-up Deferit banks $15m
Financial Review - James Eyers - March 1, 2021Investors are backing a new variant on the Afterpay model, pouring $15 million into Deferit, which lets customers split utility, telco, car registration or childcare bills into four instalment repayments. Deferit has already attracted 250,000 customers to its “bill now, pay later” ...
Child’s play unearths tools for school success
The Age - Anna Prytz - February 28, 2021Imaginative play at childcare can equip children with skills they need to thrive academically at school. Children who took part in narrative-based, role-playing activities known as Playworlds were shown to have improved executive functions, the skills that allow people to organise ...
