Childcare fees continue to impact the career choices of parents,although costs overall decreased last quarter following subsidy changes.
No Australian jurisdiction offers 30 hours of preschool a week for three-year-olds. But a royal commission led by Julia Gillard has found all children benefit from two years of high-quality care before they start school.
Any new parent will be familiar with the small offices at which child health nurses host baby check-ups,help with breastfeeding and host mothers’ groups. But could bigger be better?
There are some gems in there,some functional items you’d expect,and a ton of bizarre and totally random odds and ends.
Even after government subsidies,out-of-pocket costs have risen by 7 per cent for centre-based childcare over the past four years.
Canada,which uses Australia as an example of what not to do in childcare policy,will introduce cheap flat-fee childcare after a 25-year experiment showed the benefits.
The group representing au pairs wants them to be considered as part of the mix of early childhood education and care options.
Though I was a journalist,I saw myself as sharing facts and information,never as a ‘serious’ author.
The babies of Gilgandra are falling in love with reading,and it’s thanks in large part to country music star Dolly Parton.
The proportion of our workforce employed in the care economy has gone from 2 per cent in the 1960s to 10 per cent today. About 80 per cent of these workers are women.
Weighing up birds in flight.