"Nearly
300,000 children in regional and remote areas receive formal
childcare. However,
unlike capital cities where a glut of childcare centres is reported,
access to childcare continues to be a problem in regional areas.”
[Centre
for Independent Studies,
23 September 2018]
City centrism is alive and well in the Morrison Government.
Here is the Minister for Education and Liberal MP for Wannon Dan Tehan (pictured left) blithely assuming that every town across Australia not only has a chilcare centre it has more than one.
In Dan's world parents in rural and regional areas are apparently able to shop around for competitively priced childcare.
[cue cynical laughter]
The Daily Examiner, 22 July 2019, p.5:
Photograph: ABC |
In Dan's world parents in rural and regional areas are apparently able to shop around for competitively priced childcare.
[cue cynical laughter]
The Daily Examiner, 22 July 2019, p.5:
Greedy
childcare centres have gobbled up almost half the money parents were
meant to save from new subsidies by raising their fees.
A
subsidy system which began on July 2 last year was meant to save the
average family $1300 in childcare fees a year.
But
new data shows that in the year leading up to the subsidy’s
introduction, the average parent with a child in care 48 weeks of the
year is paying $622 more than they were 12 months ago.
Of
this $276.50 of that came from cost increases between July and
September 2018, after the subsidy was introduced.
Labor’s
childcare spokes-woman Amanda Rishworth said the government should be
“naming and shaming” centres who lifted fees to take advantage of
the subsidies.
But
Education Minister Dan Tehan said out-of-pocket costs for child care
had still fallen almost 9 per cent, and urged those getting a raw
deal to “vote with their feet and find a new service”.
Education
Department data recording costs in September 2018, the first released
since the subsidies came into place, revealed the increased costs.
It
showed the average family, which pays for 28.8 hours a week, had fees
increase by $13 a week between September 2017 and September 2018,
including $5.80 a week increase in the quarter the subsidies were
introduced….
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