The boss of a northwest Sydney preschool found guilty of failing to protect children from harm, after a baby was found unresponsive in a cot and later died, has successfully appealed a conviction.
A beloved northwest Sydney childcare facility that’s been around for more than 60 years is set an overhaul after asbestos and faulty framework were uncovered.
Sydney’s southwestern ‘childcare desert’ suburbs are getting three new day care centres. See which suburbs will benefit – and why.
New laws to increase the salary of early childhood educators will be introduced to parliament this week with the aim of boosting pay by 10 per cent by Christmas, with another 5 per cent next year.
The NSW government’s promise to build and staff 100 new public preschools across the state has advanced one step further, with tenders for the first eight new facilities to go out next month. See where they’ll be built.
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.
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.
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.
Relief is on the way for Aussie parents with changes planned to childcare fees and paid parental leave. See how they affect you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Childcare inquiries in Australia have reached ‘record-breaking’ levels since the government’s new rebate, but there is a worrying downside.
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