G8 Education Ltd has entered into an agreement to sell 25 early childhood education and care centres in Western Australia (WA) to Queensland (QLD) based operator Sparrow Early Learning for a total of $6.1 million.

KindyNow, has released its third issue of a new benchmarking report series that focuses on providing insights into occupancy and booking trends from across the sector on a monthly basis.

Sesame Kids, an early childhood education and care (ECEC) centre in the Victorian town of Ballarat, is offering long day care services on Saturdays in response to demand from the local parent community, local news source The Ballarat Courier has reported.

A new council run preschool has been opened in the New South Wales suburb of Bossley Park, thanks to funding from the NSW Department of Education’s capital works program.

The increase in the number of new long day care service approvals issued in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland remained elevated, and in NSW’s case accelerated in the third quarter of 2019, whilst the ACT, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia all recorded meaningful falls – in some cases to rates not seen for several years – according to the ACECQA’s latest snapshot.