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| Abbott's baby bonus in disguise | May 18, 2013 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Anne Summers - May 18, 2013
Having six months leave after childbirth, even at full salary, does nothing to address the far more intractable problem of how to find, and fund, full-time childcare for the first five years, and then before and/or after-school care for up to a further decade. The government has put a lot of...
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| Work pressures force parents to send ill children to school or childcare | May 17, 2013 | |
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Herald Sun - Karen Collier - May 16, 2013
PARENTS worried about keeping their jobs are dumping sick kids at school and childcare centres. One in three has admitted occasionally sending an ill child to school because they can't arrange alternative care. The sick bay syndrome emerged in a survey about the impact of cold and flu...
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| Rebate freeze 'strain' on working parents | May 16, 2013 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - May 16, 2013
THE head of the nation's largest childcare chain has criticised the decision to redirect funding to the Gonski school reforms. Goodstart Early Learning chief executive Julia Davison said yesterday the money was better invested in the early years before school starts. About 100,000 families will...
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| $7500 cap gets four-year pause | May 15, 2013 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - May 15, 2013
ABOUT 100,000 families will miss out on increases to their Child Care Rebate, after Wayne Swan continued the three-year pause on the indexation of the payment, keeping the $7500 cap on out-of-pocket fees for parents. After promising last year to deliver for families facing spiralling childcare...
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| AN extra $655.6 million will be spent on preschool places | May 15, 2013 | |
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The Australian - Justine Ferrari - May 15, 2013
AN extra $655.6 million will be spent on preschool places over the next 18 months as part of an extension of the national partnership on early childhood education. A meeting of the Council of Australian Governments last month agreed to a new national partnership deal to ensure universal...
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| Cost of help for families to top $25b | May 15, 2013 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - May 15, 2013
Government assistance to families to help them with the soaring cost of childcare will top $25 billion over the next four years. However the government has rejected calls from the childcare industry to do more to simplify the way assistance payments are made to families. "We know that one of...
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| Roof space on Flinders Street attracts city childcare tenant | May 15, 2013 | |
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The Age - Simon Johanson - May 15, 2013
The children of city office workers are set to get another rooftop early learning centre. Due to high demand, the number of child care spaces has doubled in the past eight years. But despite the increase, there are still relatively few centres to cater for the thousands of office workers who...
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| Family Day Care in Hobart - why are centres closing? | May 14, 2013 | |
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ABC Radio Hobart - Ryk Goddard - May 14, 2013
Glenorchy and Huonville are closing Family Day Care centres. Is this because the new ratio of four children to one carer is unsustainable? Do parents even want family day care to offer 'education' in the same way as a creche? Or do you as a parent choose family day care because you want your...
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| Daddy day care | May 14, 2013 | |
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Sydney Morning Herald - MJ Angel - May 14, 2013
The number of stay-at-home-dads in Australia is on the rise. There's the hit TV show House Husbands, daddy bloggers, websites, a plethora of DIY daddy guides and 'dad-vertising'. Is this becoming the new norm or have we as a society attached unfair and unrealistic stereotypes to...
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| Arena to list $240m fund after raising | May 14, 2013 | |
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The Australian - Sarah Danckert - May 14, 2013
The raising will be used to provide a $20m buyback for existing investors in the Arena Childcare Property Fund, which has been frozen since mid-2008 and at one time counted collapsed childcare services provider ABC Learning as a major tenant. New shares in the rebadged Arena REIT...
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| Eddy Groves leaving for Canada, despite being a 'flight risk' | May 14, 2013 | |
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The Australian - May 13, 2013
A COURT has given bankrupt childcare boss Eddy Groves permission to make a fresh start in Canada, despite serious questions about his financial activities in the past five years. The possibility that the former ABC Learning Centres boss might turn fugitive like failed businessman...
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| Daycare fee hikes hit 80pc of clients | May 13, 2013 | |
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The Australian - Patricia Karvelas - May 13, 2013
MORE than 80 per cent of parents with children in care have been hit by fee increases in the past year and almost 90 per cent said they would vote for a party that committed to making childcare more affordable and accessible. The Australian Childcare Alliance, which represents 70 per cent...
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| Oh baby, this is expensive | May 12, 2013 | |
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Sun Herald - Sylvia Pennington - May 12, 2013
It's Mother's Day - a good time to weigh up the costs of a new mouth to feed. 'OMG, we're having a baby!' …Once the initial shock abates, expectant couples have a slew of financial decisions and tasks to work through, budgets to draft and bills to pay. For 29-year-old media project manager...
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| Tony Abbott backs No Jab, No Play campaign | May 12, 2013 | |
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The Sunday Telegraph - Jane Hansen - May 12, 2013
A TONY Abbott-led government will crack down on people who choose not to vaccinate their children by supporting childcare centres' right to turn away children who are not immunised and by reviewing family benefit payments to vaccine refusers. In response to The Sunday Telegraph...
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| Nuts to ignorant hippies | May 12, 2013 | |
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The Sunday Telegraph - Claire Harvey - May 12, 2013
PEANUT butter bad, whooping cough and polio good. That's the inescapable message parents are hearing at the childcare centres of Sydney. It's not the childcare centres' fault - but it has to change. Taking a nut bar for play lunch is strictly forbidden at most childcare facilities, to...
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| Immunisation debate splits communities | May 12, 2013 | |
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The Sunday Telegraph - Jane Hansen - May 12, 2013
IT'S A tale of two country towns. Both are set in rolling green hills, both have populations of a few thousand and each has a unique position on the state's immunisation table. Bargo, in the southern highlands, has the highest immunisation rate at 100 per cent, according to the National...
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| Queensland childcare reforms to hit families with higher costs | May 11, 2013 | |
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Courier Mail - Kris Crane - May 11, 2013
QUEENSLAND families will be slugged with increased childcare costs as the industry struggles to meet new reforms. From January 2014, long-day care facilities will require an early childhood teacher to be in attendance and at least 50 per cent of staff to have - or be working towards...
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