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.

Latest Childcare News

 

  • ELS probes potential acquisitions

    Childcare operator Early Learning Services has been approached by a number of child care industry stakeholders looking to join forces.

    The West Australian, November 20

  • Union wants local govt to run childcare

    Union leaders are reiterating calls for childcare services to be returned to local government. The Australian Services Union (ASU) said the welfare of a further 4,000 children and the employment future of 500 childcare centre worker were now up in the air. ASU national secretary Paul Slape said "It is clear that commercially driven enterprises may put at risk an essential and vital service like child care. We need a return to quality not profit in the childcare sector."

    Melbourne Age, November 20

  • Non-profits refuse unsustainable centres

    THE non-profit child-care sector has warned it will refuse to take over struggling ABC or CFK centres should the administrator decide to try to offload them. The non-profit sector wants the Federal Government to use the crisis as an opportunity to rebalance the child-care sector by taking over ABC centres and putting their management in the hands of non-profit providers. But the sector fears the most profitable centres will be sold to commercial buyers, leaving it and the Government with up to 400 marginal centres.

  • Latest childcare centre closures 'not beginning of domino effect'

    Education Minister Julia Gillard says the collapse of CFK is not the beginning of a domino effect. She says while CFK has publicly blamed ABC Learning, the Government is still examining what went wrong. "There are issues there with ABC Learning and with CFK which we are working through, but I don't want to spread anxiety unnecessarily," she said.

    ABC Online, November 19

  • Minister assures defence families ABC centres will stay open

    Minister for Defence, Warren Snowdon, said Defence had a contract with ABC Corporate Care for the management of 18 Defence-owned childcare centres and although administrators had been appointed to the company, families need not worry.

    Public Service News, November 19

  • SA Greens host childcare summit

    The Australian Greens are hosting a meeting allowing childcare providers in South Australia to have their say about the future of the childcare sector. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said "This meeting in Adelaide is a first step in opening those lines of communication, creating a dialogue, and learning from those who are working on the ground as to how to stabilise and improve childcare provision in Australia," Senator Hanson-Young said.

    The Australian, November 19

  • Childcare centres plan to be revealed to parents

    Parents with children at ABC Learning Centres should know within a week whether the company plans to close centres from next year.

    Daily Telegraph, November 19

  • ABC link spells end for CFK Childcare

    The operator of 43 child-care centres in NSW, CFK Childcare, has gone into voluntary administration due to a failed asset sell-off to ABC Learning Centres Ltd. The CFK board revealed the company was currently losing more than $400,000 each month.

  • ABC Learning in race against time

    The receivers of ABC Learning have vowed to keep the failed child-care giant alive, in a race against time as more parents pull their children out of ABC centres. At today's meeting of more than 100 of the company's creditors, Chris Honey from receivers McGrathNicol said work was well under way on a business plan to keep open as many centres as possible beyond December 31.

  • ABC centres 'cannot be shut overnight'

    Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused the owner of 15 ABC Learning centres of scaremongering, after he threatened to shut the facilities down before Christmas. Ms Gillard, who is responsible for child care as part of her education portfolio, said on Tuesday no childcare centre can legally close without giving at least 30 days notice.

    The West Australian, November 18

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