Full list: Free childcare for these Sydney suburbs
Almost half of Western Sydney is considered a childcare desert, but construction of 40 new public preschools will begin this year under a $200 million deal. See where they’ll be built.
Early Education
‘Unprecedented’: Childcare sector reacts to Labor’s sweeteners
Childcare advocates have welcomed Labor’s plans to build more childcare centres for those in need and to make it easier for parents to access cheaper childcare.
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.
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.
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The great kindy debate: Experts reveal which age kids should start school
More parents are holding back their kids from starting school early, with almost 30 per cent of first year students now being six years old. But is it the right decision? Three leading child development experts reveal all.
Preschool fees hand-out in budget
Parents struggling to get their children into preschool will soon be able to access more than $430 million in fee relief, while more than 9000 additional children will have access to preschool, as part of the NSW state budget.
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”.
Childcare worker English test like ‘teaching Shakespeare to babies’
Crippled by a shortage of qualified workers, the childcare sector is calling for help from overseas – but is being hampered by an English test so difficult two in three native speakers fail it. Take the test to see how you’d score.
Childcare could cost just $10 a day: See if you will be eligible
Relief is on the way for Aussie parents with changes planned to childcare fees and paid parental leave. See how they affect you.
Childcare workers backtrack on national walkout
In what will come as a relief for parents scrambling to make alternative plans, early childhood educators have cancelled their plans to stop work next week.
New parents to pocket more freebies with child-raising ‘hub’
There’s no textbook on parenting, but now there is one place to find every government scheme, subsidy and financial benefit you’re eligible for – from pregnancy to preschool.
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.
Childcare workers to walk out, centres shut down in pay dispute
Parents have been put on notice to prepare for childcare workers in their thousands to walk off the job, amid a stalemate with the federal government over who’ll fund their next payrise.
‘New appreciation’: Red Wiggle’s rethink on Wiggly work and dad leave
Red Wiggle and first-time dad Simon Pryce is seeing his job as one of Australia’s most loved children’s entertainers in a new light now that his own son is clapping along.
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