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.
Almost 100 Victorian childcare centres and holiday programs have been shut as rising Omicron cases force staff to isolate.
Enrolments from students from multicultural backgrounds have jumped in Victoria’s top government schools, as migrant families target high quality education.
Parts of Melbourne have recorded a big drop in children going to preschool, raising fears students will be left behind at school.
The top suburbs for childcare across the country have been revealed, with one in Melbourne’s north rated Australia’s second best. See if yours made the top 50.
Demand for daycare has surged as ‘no jab, no job’ rules strain childcare staff levels. See the full list of Victoria’s suburbs who are the most impacted.
The federal government is chasing families over childcare subsidy debts while refusing to recoup $13bn in JobKeeper payments from profitable businesses.
Authorities are demanding an explanation from Fitzroy Community School after it was caught operating in lockdown and responsible for a cluster of 31 cases.
In a major reprieve for parents in lockdown, families will get a respite from having to pay fees for childcare they don’t use — here’s how.
Twice as many women as men have to make career sacrifices to look after their families — and experts say this household expense is mostly to blame.
A crippling shortfall in Victorian childcare centres has experts warning that the wellbeing of children will suffer.
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