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Topics: We Need a Nanny
An uneven playing field, with plenty of risk all around
I know I’ve written about this before, but the imminent report to government of the Productivity Commission inquiry into future options for child care and early childhood learning has had me thinking about the issue again: the problem of the ‘underground’ cash-in-hand in-home child care industry.
No Need To Re -invent the funding wheel
PLACEMENT SOLUTIONS NEWSLETTER – OCTOBER 2014
Reinventing the funding wheel is not the way to improve child care access.
Regular readers of this newsletter will be aware that we have been closely watching the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Childcare and Early Child Learning. We have also made submissions to the inquiry and appeared before it. The Commission released an draft report earlier this year and will soon release its final report.
Working together to change behaviour
An issue Doctor G has seen many modern parents grapple with is resilience. It’s so easy to do things for our kids these days, but that doesn’t mean that we should. Building resilience often means kids not automatically getting things their own way – and unfortunately when in-home child care is involved, it can be the Nanny who bears the brunt of the push-back when this happens.
What types of childcare are available?
Here are our views.
http://www.thebabyproject.com.au/2014/05/bringing-up-baby-your-childcare-options-explained/
Commission of Audit advocates for simpler system
The Commission of Audit has recommended...
“the Child Care Rebate and Child Care Benefit be replaced with a single, means-tested payment reimbursing parents for a proportion of their child care costs”.
Commission of audit looks at reforming child care benefits
The ABC program 7.30 recently discussed child care. The program focussed on the disincentives to return to work, the Productivity Commission inquiry into child care and the prospective review of the childcare payments system.
