Creditors are circling national chain Genius Childcare as educators refuse to show up and parents are left stranded without care.
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The 47-year-old Windsor Community Children’s Centre faces eviction after the state government refused to buy the land earmarked for sale by Swinburne University.
Competition between childcare centres and parents’ appetite for “holistic advancement” for their children is driving offerings upmarket at daycare facilities.
Experts have raised the alarm about anti-vaccine networks sharing tactics for skirting Victoria’s no jab,no play laws,while immunisation rates among children continue to decline.
The infant’s death is not being treated as suspicious.
Melbourne Grammar School student Edward Millear,17,died after suffering a medical episode while training alongside his rowing team.
Western suburbs voters have hammered the Allan government in Werribee – though they didn’t fully embrace the Liberal Party – while the Greens conceded Prahran was “on a knife’s edge”.
Many in the small electorate are concerned about community safety,and even on the voting booths tensions were high.
Jobseekers in higher education will be forced to disclose allegations or investigations of sexual harm and universities could be fined if they don’t meet safety standards under a code to prevent gender-based violence on campus.