Child Care News
Groves clings on to the controls at ABC
The Australian - Michael Sainsbury - August 01, 2008THE embattled chief of early childcare group ABC Learning, Eddy Groves, claimed he "put his nuts on the line" every day and was still the best person to run...
Childcare giant ABC reveals accounting error and tips $400m loss
Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - August 01, 2008CHILDCARE giant ABC Learning Centres said pre-tax losses would top $400 million as it revealed it wrongly booked millions in revenue years ago...
Jail for smacking children
Daily Telegraph - July 31, 2008CHILDCARE workers could be sent to jail for six months if they smack a child, yell at a child or use threatening or humiliating language...
Childcare giant ABC Learning rebrands some centres
Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - July 31, 2008ABC Learning Centres, Australia's biggest name in child care, is quietly rebranding some facilities, saying it wants to "offer parents an alternative"...
Fees for child care jump by 10% in two years
Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - July 30, 2008PARENTS are now paying an average of $233 a week for child care, a jump of more than 10per cent in two years, new Federal Government figures show...
Children in care 60 hours a week
The Age - Carol Nader - July 29, 2008HUNDREDS of children are spending 60 hours or more a week in child care, a Federal Government report has revealed. Highlighting the struggle for many...
Life's high wire act
Sydney Morning Herald - Adele Horin - July 26, 2008Fifteen years of debate hasn't fixed the work-life imbalance, a new study finds...
Babies share office space
The Australian - Julia Stirling - July 26, 2008Affordable quality child care in the US and Australia is out of reach for many families. Couple this with a lack of paid maternity and parental leave...
Childcare subsidies don't help families
Daily Telegraph - Sue Dunlevy - July 23, 2008INCREASES in childcare subsidies have not had a direct effect on getting more women into the workplace, according to a study. And government childcare subsidies have failed...
Child care costs balloon
The Australian - Jennifer Buckingham - July 23, 2008THE relationship between child care and the participation of mothers in the paid workforce seems obvious: if child care was more affordable, more mothers would work...
The ABC of lawyering
The Age - Michael West - July 22, 2008Eddy Groves''s annus horribilis just got uglier. The childcare king is now in the sights of litigation funder IMF for failing to disclose shadowy development...
Nursery school demand soars as older mothers return to their careers
Telegraph (UK) - Martin Beckford - 21 Jul 2008Record numbers of mothers are going back to work, experts claim, driving a boom for Britain's nursery schools. A comprehensive new report shows more than half...
Child care strategy to stop bullying
Courier Mail - Melanie Christiansen - July 17, 2008CONCERN about bullying in Queensland schools has prompted the state's child care industry to adopt a strategy to stop it...
Childcare 'beyond' low-earners
BBC News (UK) - July 16, 2008A quarter of parents on low incomes are unable to work because they cannot afford childcare, research conducted for Save the Children suggests...
Paid parental leave a better investment than child-care: expert
Sydney Morning Herald - Stephanie Peatling - July 15, 2008A WELL-PAID maternity leave scheme of at least one year would be best for children's development, much better than a system that forced mothers back to work...