childcare reform

A report from Australia’s consumer watchdog has recommended urgent reform of childcare policies to improve the affordability and accessibility of care.

To achieve paid-parental leave equality and see the benefits of parents better sharing care loads, it will take both the government, and employers, to seriously invest in funding, advocacy and education to shift the current status-quo.

Lisa Annese shares five essential steps to fix childcare in Australia. Reimagine early childhood education for the benefit of all.

The cost of childcare isn’t even the biggest issue we’re facing as a family. The bigger problem is that we can’t access it properly.

Families from rural and regional Australia are disadvantaged when it comes to childcare, according to the Early Learning Monitor’s survey.

In October 2020 just as Scott Morrison showed women how little he cared about their economic security, Labor committed to childcare reform.

The NSW government has promised a $5 billion investment in childcare, as well as improvements to paid parental leave for the public sector.

Mothers in Ads launched a campaign for bids for a $876,000 bottle of hand cream to highlight the cost of motherhood

Gutwein admitted that leading through COVID had taken its toll. “I have nothing left in the tank to give,” he said.

7 in 10 Australians say a universal high quality early education & care system would be good for the economy, education & inequity.

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

Increasing the childcare subsidy to 95 per cent would boost GDP by up to $7.4 billion per year, at a cost of $5.4 billion, according to KPMG.