The Government’s long awaited child care reforms – the Jobs for Families package – passed the Senate in the last sitting session, with the support of the Nick Xenaphon Team, One Nation and Derryn Hinch. This is the culmination of a long process that will see the new child care subsidy scheme in place from […]
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Separating care and education – again
Child care features prominently in the news currently. That’s good? Not really. The problem is that the focus is only on the prohibitive cost to families and insufficient supply. There needs to be more child care, and it needs to be cheaper – end of story. The term education and care services began replacing preschool […]