The Australian Child Care Index

It is vital that our children are well cared for, but we can't all be with them 24 hours a day. The Australian Child Care Index helps parents find the care in their area that suits their needs, by listing all the care options available to them. Looking for childcare? Whether Long Day Care, Family Daycare, an Early Learning Center, a Kindergarten, a Pre-school, a Nanny or a Babysitter are what you need - look around. We have the childcare options that suit your needs.

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  • Big fines for childcare centres (Jun 23)

    Fifty WA childcare providers breached State regulations in the past year, with legal action or licence suspensions pursued against 11 services for problems including inadequate supervision and failing to report a child's hospital visit to authorities.

    Read the whole story at The West Australian website.

  • Gillard calls snap meeting on childcare fee hikes (Jun 6)

    Reports that childcare fees have risen by an average of 11 per cent in the past year seem to have sprung Prime Minister Julia Gillard into action.

    Read the whole story at the ABC News website.

  • Call to delay kinder changes rejected (Jun 2)

    Calls for the federal government to extend the June 2013 deadline for when Victorian kindergartens must provide 15-hour programs for four-year-olds appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

    Read the whole story at The Age website.

  • Workers pay out on minimum wage rise (Jun 2)

    Childcare staff talk about how little the rise in minimum wage will help them

    Read the whole story at the Herald Sun website.

  • Childcare centres ready for fire hazards (May 31)

    Childcare providers assure parents that Canberra centres are safe from the kind of inferno that killed 13 children, including three New Zealand triplets, in a Qatari crèche this week.

    Read the whole story at the Canberra Times website.

  • Child care worker who beat daughters with a power cord keeps blue card (May 30)

    A child care worker convicted of assaulting her twin daughters with an electrical cord has won the right to keep her bluecard so she can continue working with children.

    Read the whole story at the Courier Mail website.

  • Daycare 'swap' OK for rebates (May 30)

    Family daycare operators who send their children to another creche could still claim the childcare rebate if they're eligible, a senate committee has heard.

    Read the whole story at the Sydney Morning Herald website.

  • $4m for Canberra child care (May 30)

    The ACT Government will spend more than $4 million on child care and community facilities in next week's budget. That figure is down from the $9 million in last year's budget, which was spent upgrading nine childcare centres to provide places for 170 children.

    Read the whole story at the ABC News website.

  • Government's threat to childcare centres over fees (May 27)

    The federal government warned it would publicly name childcare centres using reforms as an excuse to jack up prices after one centre tried to gouge parents an extra $46 a day.

    Read the whole story at the Daily Telegraph website.

  • Children to be given a taste of danger at new childcare centre (May 26)

    Children would be given trees to climb in, a creek to explore and material to build cubby houses under proposals for a new childcare centre and kindergarten which aims to buck the trend of wrapping them in cotton wool. The proposal by C&K comes as the organisation dedicates an entire weekend conference to the topic of "children's right to childhood" and the consequences of risk aversion.

    Read the whole story at the Courier Mail website.