Victoria has announced an extra $510,000 in financial incentives as part of a wider push for teachers to take jobs in regional Victoria.
Plans are to reopen school for young children,senior students. while years 3 to 10 will stay home. Schools will reopen to all students in country Victoria.
Parents are scrambling to arrange care for their children as the deadline looms for tough new lockdown rules that leave many ineligible to access services.
Families have been told access to childcare will be limited to'permitted workers',but are yet to find out what that term means.
Childcare providers are braced for plummeting attendance rates in the next six weeks that could send some centres to the wall as most families keep their children home.
Linda Davison is not surprised that more families are questioning whether to delay their child's start at school.
Sessional kindergarten fees will be capped at half cost in term three to give Victorian parents and preschools more time to recover from the impact of COVID-19.
Remote learning has challenged many students. But others have flourished,and they will need to be accommodated as NSW schools transition back to face-to-face teaching.
For the first time,a picture book for children has won the book industry's top award.
Childcare workers are wrapping their heads around why it's OK to send a three-year-old to childcare,when schools in Victoria are closed.
Fire-ravaged Mallacoota will get a new preschool after the old one was damaged in a storm,forcing children to attend a makeshift kindergarten with no toilets.