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New Wages In Effect - 3.5% Increase Will Now Apply!

New Wages In Effect - 3.5% Increase Will Now Apply!

Educators, ECT's and Trainees who are currently earning minimum wages from the Children's Services Award 2010 or the Educational Service Teachers Award, 2010 will now receive a 3.5% pay increase from the first full pay period.
Luxurious Childcare Services From $3,000 A Month

Luxurious Childcare Services From $3,000 A Month

There has been an increase in boutique style services across Australia, which offer state of the art facilities from daily yoga sessions, to language classes and meals cook by a qualified chef.
Free Preschool For 3 Year Olds In NSW

Free Preschool For 3 Year Olds In NSW

In a $200 million giveaway by NSW Government to families, NSW will become the first state to pay for three-year-olds to go to preschool.
Calls To Ban Pools At FDC Centres After Death Of 2 Year Old

Calls To Ban Pools At FDC Centres After Death Of 2 Year Old

Two-year-old Lachlan Mitchell was left unsupervised for seven minutes in his Perth FDC service where he was found face down in the water on November 9th, 2015.
Phonics - An Essential Foundation For Early Reading

Phonics - An Essential Foundation For Early Reading

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read.
Educators Unpaid For A Year

Educators Unpaid For A Year

The Fair Work Ombudsman is taking legal action against a Sydney childcare operator that allegedly failed to pay two migrant workers for a year of work.
Educator Banned From FDC After Husband Hits Child While In Care

Educator Banned From FDC After Husband Hits Child While In Care

A childcare worker has been banned for working with children after her husband allegedly hit a hit a four-year-old boy in their care, at the New South Wales Family Dare Care Service on July 18, 2016.
Measles Alert For Brisbane

Measles Alert For Brisbane

The Metro South Health Public Health Unit has confirmed a case of measles, in a child in the Brisbane area. The person was in a number of locations whilst unknowingly infectious. Residents in the Brisbane and Logan areas in particular…
Male Educator Found Not Guilty Of Inappropriate Touching Of A 4 year Old Boy

Male Educator Found Not Guilty Of Inappropriate Touching Of A 4 year Old Boy

A jury has found a kindergarten teacher in far north Queensland not guilty of inappropriately touching a four-year-old boy in his care at a daycare centre.
18 Month Old Swallows Dummy In Her Sleep

18 Month Old Swallows Dummy In Her Sleep

Stacey Willett, from Queensland's Mackay, has revealed the terrifying moment she discovered her 18-month-old daughter Aurora swallowed a dummy in her sleep. Only realising the little girl had ingested the plastic product after they found it in her nappy the…
NSW Government To Cover 75% Of Tafe Course Fees For Cert 3 Qualifications in Early Childhood Education

NSW Government To Cover 75% Of Tafe Course Fees For Cert 3 Qualifications in Early Childhood Education

To help attract more students, the NSW government will cover 75 percent of TAFE course fees for Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care, which should deliver a $5000 saving.
Federal Governments Lack Of Investment In The Early Childhood Industry

Federal Governments Lack Of Investment In The Early Childhood Industry

No extension of universal access in the year before schooling, no further funding for state and regulatory authorities and just 2 years of funding for ACECQA and no development of workforce strategy for those wanting to pursue early childhood qualifications.
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