EARLY LEARNING COSTS SKYROCKET MORE THAN FOUR TIMES INFLATION
October 30, 2024
Wednesday 30 October Families with children in early education and care are grapplingwith sky-rocketing out-of-pocket costs.Wednesday 30 October Families with children in early education and...
NSW Training Awards: Early Childhood Education and Care - Vocational Student of the Year 2024
October 01, 2024
Vocational Student of the Year 2024 - Samantha Zannes Jenny's Kindergarten and Early Learning Centre – Bathurst Driven to tailor education to children with additional needs, Samantha...
NSW Training Awards: Early Childhood Education and Care - Trainee Of The Year 2024
September 30, 2024
Trainee Of The Year 2024 Lachlan Carey – Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care Newcastle’s A Magical Time Children's Centre. Facing his fair...
The Parenthood's CEO, Georgie Dent, writes to the Productivity Commission
September 26, 2024
The report identifies, in Finding 4.3, there are 328,000 parents not participating in the paidworkforce as much as they would like due to barriers around...
Tassie playdates: Senator Tammy Tyrrell and The Parenthood hear from local parents struggling with childcare
September 19, 2024
On Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September, Senator Tammy Tyrrell and The Parenthood are teaming up to host three playdates for local families in Launceston,...
The change Australia’s parents are crying out for on universal early childhood education and care
September 18, 2024
The change Australia’s parents are crying out for: PC backs campaign for universal early childhood education and careA landmark report from the Productivity Commission today...
Provision of superannuation on Paid Parental Leave
The long-term financial security of parents, particularly mothers, in their retirement years, is threatened by the Coalition’s proposed changes to the Paid Parental Leave Bill,...
Childcare shortage crushes families in the regions
Regional, rural and remote parents are on the brink of burnout due to the lack of early childhood education and care in their communities, finds...
Early learning workforce needs extra 21,000 educators
The early childhood education and care workforce is estimated to need 21,000 more educators to meet current demand for early childhood education, the Jobs and...
Inadequate care options cause mothers to work and earn less
Inadequate care options cause majority of working mothers to work and earn less - A new survey has found that 61% of working mothers in...
Campaigners celebrate bill for super on paid parental leave
“Fighting the motherhood penalty”: campaigners celebrate bill for super on paid parental leave. Paying superannuation on paid parental leave could mean as much as $30,000...
700 000 Australians don’t have access to ECEC
A new report from The Mitchell Institute at Victoria University release today, has found that roughly 700,000 Australians live in areas with virtually no access...