Child Care News
Fat police for tubby tots
Herald Sun - Susie O'Brien - September 2, 2008The blueprint, which is designed to provide more integrated services to parents of children from birth to eight years, is also expected to boost childcare...
Parents deserve right to choose children's care
ABC Online - Eva Cox - September 2, 2008"A Federal Government census of childcare services released this year found 757 children were attending long daycare services for at least 60 hours a week...
Government sets pre-school learning targets
The Guardian (UK) - Sarah Morrison - September 1, 2008Under-fives who play in the sandpit and recite nursery rhymes are to be assessed under a new government-enforced national curriculum that comes into force today...
McKew attacks childcare staff ratio
The Australian - Samantha Maiden - September 01, 2008KEVIN Rudd's handpicked adviser on childcare has attacked the current ratio of one carer to five babies as "not good enough" and warned the Government may...
Childcare changes put families under stress
Courier Mail - Melanie Christiansen - September 01, 2008SOME Brisbane parents have withdrawn their children from child care because of a Federal Government-imposed hike in up-front costs. Childcare Queensland has warned...
Fees to rise in shake-up of childcare
The Sunday Times (UK) - Robert Watts - August 31, 2008Families will be hit by increased childcare costs under government plans to “professionalise” nursery staff. In an attempt to give children from poor...
Mem Fox slammed for childcare comments
The Australian - August 31, 2008LEADING children's author Mem Fox has drawn criticism from working mothers but qualified support from family groups for likening childcare for very young...
Mem Fox blasts full time child care for babies
Melbourne Herald Sun - Elissa Lawrence - August 31, 2008PUTTING babies into child care is a form of child abuse, children's author Mem Fox has claimed. Ms Fox, author of Possum Magic, said she believed that...
Job-shedding ABC Learning faces huge write-down
The Australian - Michael Sainsbury - August 30, 2008The company has also started a round of new part-time staff cutbacks amid fears the group may be forced into hundreds of millions of dollars in write-downs...
ABC Learning Centres draws a line in sandpit
Melbourne Herald Sun - Anthony Marx - August 30, 2008A DEFIANT Eddy Groves yesterday hosed down speculation that his stricken ABC Learning Centres would collapse or that he would step down as chief executive...
ABC Learning Centres will survive: Eddy Groves
The Australian - Susan Murdoch - August 29, 2008EDDY Groves, the CEO of embattled ABC Learning Centres, said today he's "very confident" the child care operator would survive. Shares in ABC Learning...
ABC Learning won''t release results today
The Australian - August 29, 2008The child care provider confirmed it would not comply with securities exchange listing rules requiring it to release its results by a certain deadline...
Fears grow of ABC Learning collapse
NEWS.com.au - Anthony Marx - August 29, 2008SPECULATION continues to grow that childcare chain ABC Learning is poised to collapse, but parents have been urged not to panic...
Shake-up looms for childcare funding
DutchNews.nl (Netherlands) - August 29, 2008The entire Dutch pre-school childcare system is to be overhauled to cut costs and encourage more women to work, the Telegraaf reports on Thursday...
Study predicts long-term benefits of preschool learning
The Guardian (UK) - James Randerson - August 28, 2008Children who receive a rich variety of home learning before they start school achieve measurably better results in maths tests at age 10, according to a...