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| Australia best for kids: expat survey | March 12, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - March 11, 2010
Respondents rated their adopted homes on quality of childcare, education, ease of integration, costs of raising children and time spent on outdoor...
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| Senate obstruction on baby leave? Hype and poppycock | March 11, 2010 | |
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The Age - Misha Schubert - March 11, 2010
Sometimes politicians talk an awful lot of rot. To hear Jenny Macklin tell it, the Senate is poised to scuttle Australia's first paid parental leave scheme...
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| Baby leave is not a women's issue | March 10, 2010 | |
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The Age - Leslie Cannold - March 10, 2010
By failing to talk about childcare and paid leave as something of critical importance to children, men and women, both political parties doom us to more of the same work/life crunch...
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| We must all pay for parental leave | March 10, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Julia Perry - March 10, 2010
Australia is one of two OECD countries without a paid parental leave system. Most schemes meet between 80-100 per cent of the parent's wage, funded through a levy on...
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| EU extends parental leave to four months | March 10, 2010 | |
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BBC News (UK) - March 9, 2010
The new EU directive is aimed at providing a better balance between work and family life by allowing parents to transfer most of their time off to each other...
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| Groves earnings figure 'way off the mark' | March 9, 2010 | |
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The Courier-Mail - Liam Walsh - March 09, 2010
FORMER ABC Learning Centres boss Eddy Groves told bankers that raw earnings for 2009 would be $265 million - a forecast the childcare operator's new...
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| Unions to push pay equity for women | March 4, 2010 | |
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The Australian - Ewin Hannan - March 04, 2010
UNIONS are considering running cases to lift the wages of the female-dominated aged care and childcare sectors after ACTU president Sharan Burrow yesterday...
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| UK grandparents risk poverty caring for kids | March 4, 2010 | |
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Herald Sun - March 03, 2010
LOW-income families risk financial hardship by giving up work to look after their grandchildren, according to a new report just released.
The report, by British...
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| Gillard admits failure on childcare delivery | March 3, 2010 | |
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The Australian - Matthew Franklin - March 03, 2010
...government has failed to deliver on its 2007 election promise to "end the double drop-off" for parents by building childcare centres on school grounds...
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| PM unsure on progress of childcare plan | February 23, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - February 23, 2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he's unsure how the government's plan to build 260 new childcare centres is going. Labor promised to open centres in schools...
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| ABC centres to stay running until sold | February 22, 2010 | |
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The Dominion Post (NZ) - Catherine Harris - February 22, 2010
Childcare company ABC Learning Centres will be kept running till a suitable buyer is found, its Australian parent firm's receiver says...
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| Double drop-off falls by wayside | February 19, 2010 | |
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The Australian - Matthew Franklin - February 19, 2010
KEVIN Rudd's 2007 election vow to parents to "end the double-drop-off" by building 260 childcare centres at schools is in tatters, with only three completed...
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| Childcare close call | February 19, 2010 | |
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ntnews.com.au - Annie Sanson - February 19th, 2010
NEAR DISASTER: The semi stopped in the childcare centre sandpit. The driver had been trying to reverse the truck into the shed in the background...
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| Creche strike over childcare reforms | February 18, 2010 | |
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The Connexion (France) - February 17, 2010
The government announced big changes to the municipal childcare system earlier this month, dropping the legal minimum of fully qualified staff required in each centre from 50% to 40%...
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| ABC Learning board to face court probe | February 15, 2010 | |
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Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - February 14, 2010
THE whole board of ABC Learning Centres and Eddy Groves's brother-in-law have been issued summons for a courtroom examination into the childcare operator's collapse...
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| Child care bill gives parents more information | February 11, 2010 | |
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ABC Online - Chris O'Brien - February 10, 2010
New laws have been introduced into Queensland Parliament to improve the standard of child care centres. When the changes are passed, centres will have to display log books...
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| Parents face childcare fees rise | February 11, 2010 | |
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BBC News - Katherine Sellgren - February 10, 2010
Childcare costs in England, Wales and Scotland are continuing to rise, a survey by the Daycare Trust suggests. The trust found parents in England paid an...
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| Just stay in the kitchen, ladies... | February 10, 2010 | |
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The Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - February 10, 2010
It is one of a range of issues, including inadequate after-school childcare, non-existent vacation care and lack of flexible working working hours keeping women out of the work force...
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| Childcare website to name, shame | February 9, 2010 | |
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NEWS.com.au - February 09, 2010
A NEW website to name and shame Queensland childcare centres in breach of standards has gone live. Premier Anna Bligh told state parliament today the website would...
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| Coalition to offer six-months paid leave | February 9, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - February 9, 2010
The Coalition will attempt to win over family and female voters by offering six-months paid parental leave and giving nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers...
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| DOCS to strip grandparents of payments for childcare | February 4, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - February 4, 2010
HUNDREDS of people who look after their grandchildren full-time risk losing a special payment worth between $400 and $600 per child a fortnight after the...
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| Children’s Services Recognition Program | February 4, 2010 | |
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Tasmanian Government Media Release - February 3, 2010
This program will provide a customised and supported journey, for unqualified Children’s Services staff, to achieve recognition of knowledge and skills gained in the workplace...
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| Sunkids and courtroom shadows | February 1, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Scott Rochfort - February 1, 2010
The liquidator of the financial engineer is expected to put the Sunkids childcare business officially up for sale. Bentleys Corporate Recovery is expected...
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| Balancing act | January 31, 2010 | |
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The Age - Annabel Stafford - January 31, 2010
Job plus kids plus house plus spouse - is the modern woman's dream of having it all really a nightmare? LAST year, researchers at the US National Bureau of Economic Research...
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| Day-care centres fail on hygiene and safety | January 29, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Kirsty Needham - January 29, 2010
ONE in five family day-care centres nationally fail hygiene and safety quality standards, a report has found. Child-care fees in the cities have...
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| We pay more, wait longer, get less | January 29, 2010 | |
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The Canberra Times - Markus Mannheim - January 29, 2010
The report reveals Canberra parents pay the highest child-care fees in Australia, even though ACT centres have the least-qualified workers...
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| Queensland police deliver more for less | January 29, 2010 | |
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Courier Mail - Stefanie Balogh - January 29, 2010
Queensland has the highest proportion of any state or territory of children aged up to 12 using government-approved childcare and its spending...
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| Day care fined following toddler death | January 29, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - January 28, 2010
A northern NSW family day care association has been fined $26000 following the drowning of a 21-month-old boy. The toddler died in a retention pond...
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| Daycare kids twice as likely to pick up bugs | January 27, 2010 | |
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The Australian - Natasha Bita - January 27, 2010
CHILDREN in daycare are twice as likely to suffer chronic infections as kids cared for at home, a government-backed study of 10,000 children has found...
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| Health spending to rise 12-fold: Rudd | January 25, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - January 25, 2010
... predicted health spending, which could be achieved by boosting workforce participation through measures like improved childcare and paid parental leave...
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| 8.25am: meltdown time for modern mums | January 25, 2010 | |
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The Sunday Telegraph - Sharon Labi - January 24, 2010
A British study of 2000 mothers found stress levels peak at 8.25am as women juggle the drop-off with increasingly heavy traffic to get to work...
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| New laws - childcare fees rise | January 23, 2010 | |
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Daily Telegraph - Xanthe Kleinig - January 23, 2010
WORKING parents are facing a hefty rise in childcare fees of up to $200 a week because of a radical overhaul of childcare in NSW. Childcare centres are preparing...
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| Cash delay, merger push ELS shares to new heights | January 23, 2010 | |
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Gold Coast Bulletin News - Nick Nichols - January 23, 2010
THE rising price of Early Learning Services' shares has prompted the merger deal with Payce Childcare to be an all-scrip affair. When the merger was revealed last month...
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| Perth Council convicted of child creche escape | January 21, 2010 | |
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WA today - Chris Thomson - January 20, 2010
The City of Perth has been convicted of letting a two-year-old boy escape from a council-run childcare centre to swing on the boomgate of a busy Northbridge carpark...
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| Childcare offenders exposed in new online service | January 20, 2010 | |
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PerthNow - January 20, 2010
PARENTS will be able to check whether childcare providers have been prosecuted or have breached childcare regulations, with the launch of a new online...
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| ABC faces March wind-up, but creditors will have to wait | January 18, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Colin Kruger - January 18, 2010
THE longest administration in Australia's corporate history will almost certainly come to an end in March with ABC Learning's creditors expected to vote to wind up...
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| Holiday care is not a black and white issue for working mums | January 17, 2010 | |
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The Age - Carmel Egan - January 17, 2010
HOLIDAY care has fallen through the cracks of Australia's childcare debate but is looming as a flashpoint in workplace relations, as parents and unions push for greater flexibility...
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| Youth workers may pay $60 for security checks | January 17, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - January 17, 2010
People working with children could have to pay for their own criminal checks under changes to child protection laws being considered by the NSW Government...
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| Childcare centres closed | January 12, 2010 | |
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The Age - Miki Perkins and Paul Austin - January 12, 2010
THE Education Department will close almost 200 kindergartens, childcare centres and school holiday programs in regions of Victoria that have been declared a code red...
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| Childcare group in liquidation | January 12, 2010 | |
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New Zealand Herald - January 12, 2010
A nationwide early childcare service has been put into liquidation. Easy Mind is a home-based service providing care for infants up to 5. It has 15 centres...
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| Opposition dismisses 'cheapskate' leave model | January 11, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Dan Harrison - January 11, 2010
THE woman charged with crafting the Coalition's paid parental leave policy has dismissed Labor's proposed scheme as a ''cheapskate'' model which does not...
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| Education boost for indigenous families | January 11, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Jessica Mahar - January 11, 2010
Parents will be encouraged to spend 30 hours a week at their child's centre and work towards a formal qualification, while also spending one-on-one time...
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| New ABC Learning off to a flying start | January 11, 2010 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Colin Kruger - January 11, 2010
ABC LEARNING'S receivers have offered the first glimpse of the group's financial health since its collapse in November 2008, showing that the remaining...
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| ABC Learning logo stoush too much to bear | January 1, 2010 | |
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Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - January 01, 2010
THE sale of ABC Learning Centres has sparked a dispute about the giant childcare operator's purple teddy bear logo. A man who says he designed the logo is...
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