Lisa Bryant

A report from the ACCC found that childcare fees rose faster than inflation and wage growth during the past four years.

As an older woman, I’m no longer trying to fit into a mould, my authenticity makes me stronger. I now have the confidence that comes with age and experience.

This government designed the system that they now have to change because childcare is so unaffordable that they become un-re-electable.

To snap back to a childcare system that was complex and unworkable even before COVID-19 is nothing short of madness, writes Lisa Bryant.

There are a bunch of reasons, including that the package was poorly explained, writes early childhood education activist and consultant, Lisa Bryant.

Childcare centres have been told they have to remain open through the COVID-19 crisis, but they need a clear plan to support them.

Teachers and educators seem to be the missing voices in the debate about whether schools and early education and care services remain open or closed.

The work early childhood educators undertake is hard and valuable. Human brains learn more in the first five years than at any other time in their lives.

Lisa Bryant responds to the suggestion by the Australian Childcare Alliance NSW that teacher numbers should be reduced to ease cost of childcare

So after three years, three Senate Inquiries, one Productivity Commission Inquiry and two elections the Government finally managed to get its childcare (“Jobs for Families”) package through the Senate last week.

At a time when accessing childcare of any sort can be extremely problematic, being offered a place in a centre for your baby or child is almost akin to winning the lottery.

Ask any working parent with a young child and they will tell you that childcare takes up a lot of their thought.