Child Care News
Six preschools to become childcare centres
Brisbane Times – July 19, 2007'What we are doing is providing nearby services in those specific areas with more childcare services and longer opening hours,' Mr Pitt said...
Rudd childcare plan outlined
Melbourne Herald Sun - July 19, 2007The Labor Leader yesterday laid out a plan for a new Office of Work and Family, which would publish figures on childcare centre fees and vacancies...
Rudd promises monitoring of child-care fees
The Age – Misha Schubert – July 19, 2007KEVIN Rudd has pledged to create a government agency to monitor soaring child-care fees. In his bid to attract voters uneasy about growing financial...
Rudd's tax-free creches
Daily Telegraph – Malcolm Farr – July 19, 2007By Malcolm Farr LABOR last night called for a national debate on shaking up the tax system by exempting work-based childcare from FBT...
Mum's with part-time jobs are happier - report
NEWS.com.au - Patricia Karvelas and Jude Townend - July 18, 2007Just a small proportion - 5.5 per cent - of families do not use childcare because they have problems with affordability, availability or quality...
Chronic virus shuts hospital wards
Brisbane Times – Georgina Robinson and Tony Moore - July 17, 2007Children with the bug should stay home from school or child care, as should adults working in aged care, childcare or food handling industries...
Modern Britain is 'pulling families apart'
This is London (UK) – July 17, 2007Mothers told the charity they felt pressured to go back to work by Government policies designed to push more pre-schoolers into childcare...
Families feel childcare and work pressures
Guardian Unlimited (UK) – Lucy Ward - July 17, 2007The findings reflect 'the growing dilemmas over childcare British parents can feel when trying to juggle the many demands of modern life in a country that...
Crucial care for children
The Age – Steve Biddulph – July 16, 2007The research is now undeniable that babies and younger toddlers do not thrive in child care. A COUPLE of weeks ago, stranded between flights...
Childcare operators fall short
NEWS.com.au – Hannah Martin - July 15, 2007The Federal Government childcare watchdog confirmed 65 centres, 36 after-school facilities and five family day-care providers in the state fell short of...
Safety first
Courier Mail - July 15, 2007IT is difficult not to feel sympathy for some childcare operators as they struggle to keep up with the myriad government regulations that apply to their...
Child-care back to valuing workers
Brisbane Times - Anne Summers - July 14, 2007The agreement will greatly improve the entitlements of the people who care for our children in the more than 1400 child-care centres now controlled by ABC...
Police under fire over child-care case
The West Australian - Christiana Jones - July 14, 2007Each originally faced seven counts of assault after a police raid at Huntingdale's Tommie Turtle Child Care Centre last October uncovered sleeping children...
Working toll for single parents
Daily Telegraph – Sue Dunlevy - July 13, 2007However, The Daily Telegraph discovered this week that while you can count bus fares, childcare costs, increases in your public housing rent and even taxi...
Reform push on preschool
Melbourne Herald Sun - Dina Rosendorff - July 13, 2007HEFTY preschool fees could be lowered if education for three and four-year-olds were made compulsory in Victoria, according to the education union...
