Regional Victoria’s crippled childcare system has teachers staying in backpacker hostels and parents waiting more than two years to enrol their children, a federal advisory body was told.
A southern NDIS provider is set to bridge the service gap the Territory’s youngest learners are facing. Here’s how the project will work.
From bush tucker to thriving desert vegetable gardens, the Woolworths Junior Landcare grants are boosting kids’ environmental learning in some unexpected ways.
From Gogglebox to grammar: Kerry and Izzy Silbery reveal how family chats can supercharge and help Aussie kids.
Despite many families feeling the financial pressure of the pandemic, two thirds of Melbourne councils will be hiking fees for childcare and kinder. Here’s what your council will be charging come September.
Accessing childcare will be significantly different from Thursday. Here’s where to get a permit, what to expect with fees if your children aren’t attending, if you can use a babysitter and everything in between.
A damning report by Australia’s childcare watchdog reveals the quality of care and education children get depends very much on where they live. Search most and least advantaged areas in your state.
The end of free childcare has prompted experts to raise concerns about preschoolers who have had their early education interrupted and in some cases may have to pull out of care.
Vaccination advocates say research shows vaccination uptake in early childhood education centre staff is low and needs urgent government intervention.
There’s no reason to turn on the TV or let them commandeer the iPad when there’s much better stuff for kids to learn and do while cooped up at home. Here’s 20 great books full of ideas, activities and inspiration.
Kids being kept away from school because of the coronavirus outbreak now have curriculum-based activities at their fingertips for free.
Cyber safety experts are alarmed after much loved children’s group The Wiggles opened an account on the video sharing app TikTok, which has an age limit of 13 and over.
A Sydney kindergarten has pleaded with parents to send toilet paper and baby wipes to school with their children until the panic-buying ‘hysteria’ dies down.
Hundreds of childcare providers that have rorted the system have been outed in a government online list. See which state had the most fraudsters.
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