Music to no one’s ears: The cost of childcare to increase
What it costs to have a child in day care around Australia varies from as little as $60 to as much as $160 a day. Due to short supply and long wait lists there is rarely much choice about where a family sits on the price spectrum; usually a family will pay whatever it costs where they get a position. Price remains a moot issue for families who can’t get a position. Read More
Childcare funding proposals may hit families they aimed to help
MOST families will be worse off if proposed changes to childcare funding are adopted, new modelling shows.
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Scott Morrison to ask cabinet to support additional spending on childcare
Scott Morrison will ask federal cabinet to give in-principle approval for additional spending on childcare on Monday as he begins consultations with the industry about his soon to be released families and childcare policy. Read More
Politicians far too slow to understand importance of quality early childhood education and care
I’m not sure how many barbecues it’s stopping these days, but the […] Read More
This isn’t the childcare overhaul that we need
The recommendations from the report by the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into childcareare rather like band aids for nasty wounds. Read More
Entsch bats for kindy cash
THE federal member for Leichhardt, Warren Entsch, dropped into the Goodstart Early Learning centre in Mossman last week to see what he could do for the kindy now that funding for child care is back in the spotlight. Read More
New modelling shows parents would save hundreds if PPL cash goes to childcare
CASH-strapped working families would save hundreds of dollars a month if the federal government diverted $1.5 billion from its paid parental leave scheme and put the money into childcare subsidies. Read More
This Is The Most Brilliantly Simple Idea To Spur Economic Growth Aired At Davos So Far
Sir Christopher Pissarides, a Nobel laureate economist told tells of a wonderfully simple idea that creates or sustains three jobs for each single job subsidised by government spending. Read More
Tony Abbott reframes paid parental leave scheme as ‘holistic families package’ following ‘community concern’
Tony Abbott has acknowledged there has been community concern about his multi-billion-dollar paid parental leave scheme, and says it will be re-worked into a “holistic families package”. Read More
Tony Abbott’s PPL under the microscope in childcare overhaul
A LOOMING overhaul of childcare funding will be used to reshape Tony Abbott’s controversial paid parental leave scheme, as ministers review flagship policies in response to a sinking budget outlook. Read More