Grieving family prepare for inquest into NT childcare centre death
The grieving parents of a little girl have released a heartbreaking photo of her, ahead of the coronial inquest into a fatal medical incident at a Top End childcare centre.
Early Education
56 family daycare centres in Victoria closed under emergency order
Authorities have ordered the interim closure of dozens of centres while compliance and sleep risk assessments are carried out following the death of a baby in Melbourne’s southeast.
Check your suburb: Where 65 kinders will be built, upgraded
Families will have access to 6500 new kinder spaces this year, with 65 centres opening after being built or undergoing upgrades. Search our interactive map to see all the new kinders near you.
More than 4600 children injured at Victorian childcare services
More than 660 Victorian children were locked out or unaccounted for across the state’s childcare services last financial year, with more than 6100 serious incidents reported, a shocking new report has revealed.
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The ‘lifechanging’ development coming to Victoria’s kinders
Children with disabilities will have more freedom and independence at kinder than before, thanks to ‘lifechanging’ upgrades and renovations taking place at more than 400 centres.
Family claims ‘nothing but crickets’ from childcare in breach of laws
A family embroiled in a legal fight with a Gold Coast early learning centre which breached child safety laws, including drawing on their kid, claims it has stopped responding to emails. Full story.
The best educational apps for your child
Educational apps are leading the change for learning both in and outside classrooms across the country with parents, experts and principals revealing their tips and tricks ahead of the start of school.
NT community fights to keep popular preschool program
A popular preschool trial has been quietly scrapped by the CLP, leading to members of a rural community to fight for it to be reinstated.
Beach better than classroom for kids’ maths, science results
Kids who play at the beach have been shown to have greater science and maths knowledge than those confined to a classroom.
‘Desert’ daycares greenlit for southwest Sydney
Sydney’s southwestern ‘childcare desert’ suburbs are getting three new day care centres. See which suburbs will benefit – and why.
Toddlers being turned into activists at childcare: Report
The federal government’s Early Years Learning Framework has been criticised for “indoctrinating infants and toddlers to radical social justice theory”.
Free kinder comes at a cost
With the number of local children aged four or younger set to jump by more than 50 per cent by 2041, more than $200m could be needed to build new kindergartens in Geelong.
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