Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne As any parent can attest, the birth of a child unravels life into chaos. Babies – adorable little creatures – bring a whirlwind of nappies to be changed, bellie…
Meet the lawyer turned childcare innovator bringing early education into the home
Andrea Christie-David is a human rights lawyer and company director determined to offer new quality early childhood education options to families. Having experienced her early parenting life with thre…
Why Labor’s plan for preschool is music to the ears of early childhood advocates
Yesterday morning, almost the entire early childhood advocate community gathered in an upper room of Monash University in Melbourne’s east. There were educators, teachers and union organisers, sitting…
Thought childcare was expensive? Out of pocket expenses rose 48% in 6 years
More of us are using formal childcare in order to participate in the workforce, yet childcare is still becoming less affordable. That’s the verdict on the childcare system in a new report by the…
Flexible childcare until 11:30pm? It’s now reality at one centre thanks to this female entrepreneur
We love seeing innovation in the childcare sector. Particularly when it comes from female entrepreneurs who are tapping into their own experiences raising kids in order to create something better. Las…
Childcare centres sending kids home with dinner boxes to help exhausted parents
If, like me, you find the post-childcare or after-school dinner particularly challenging and therefore often end up resorting to weetbix and peas, you’re going to love this. One childcare operat…
We’ve been having the wrong conversation about childcare changes
It is one week into the childcare changes, and the Government is forcing women into having the wrong conversations. For the last week – in corridors, in playgroups, in professional groups, and over th…
The problem with anything that increases ‘the motherhood penalty’
I get it. I really do. Where is the utility in giving a family with a household income in excess of $350K any subsidy for their children to attend childcare? Is this entitlement gone mad? How greedy t…
New Child Care Subsidy: I fear efforts to close the gender pay gap could suffer
As new child care arrangements kick in for parents this week, Labor MP Susan Templeman fears some women will be worse off, especially if making a post-baby move from part time to full time work. Ther…
In news that will shock few parents childcare fees are on the rise. Again.
Depressing is the only word for it. A week before the government’s new childcare arrangements kick in – reforms that were far from perfect but were designed to deliver some welcome financial relief to…
