childcare

A number of female leaders have signed a letter addressed to the Prime Minister urging him to fix workplace gender inequality.

Australian small business and family enterprise ombudsman Kate Carnell has come out in support of reforming the childcare system.

Alan Tudge says child care costs less than $5 an hour for 70% of families. That’s still $13,000 a year out of pocket.

Nannies aren’t babysitters or au pairs whose job is to feed the kids or clean the house. Nannies are professional child carers.

Melinda Gates has called on government to start thinking about childcare as “essential infrastructure” as they rebuild economies.

Across Australia, out of pocket child care costs are now 2.4% higher than they were this time last year according to new CPI figures.

That child care reform will benefit high-earning women is a two-bit sideshow compared to the economic and social benefits it will deliver.

The Parenthood & Make It Free are co-hosting a conversation on MindHive about how free early childhood education & care would impact families.

The HILDA Survey suggests single-parent households on Australia are abandoning formal childcare as they face greater poverty rates.

Anthony Albanese and Labor have responded to calls from Australian families and working women promising a $6 billion child care reform.

One third of one percent of the entire history-making, big spending budget goes to women. That’s 0.038% of around $500 billion.

Whether families actually save anything at all depends on where they live and what childcare provider they use, writes Kate Noble.