Councils in Victoria will be supported by the State Government to develop centralised enrolment schemes, and to simplify enrolment processes, in a bid to make it easier for families to secure a kindergarten place for three and four-year-old children.

The future of an in home care service, run in the rural New South Wales community of Kempsey, has been secured through an injection of funding from the Federal Government’s Community Child Care Fund (CCCF), local paper, The Macleay Argus has reported.

Federal Member for Wide Bay, a Queensland region located north of Brisbane, Mr Llew O’Brien has welcomed recent funding which will see $330,000 flow into the area to support improved access to child care.

The Department of Social Services have released the 2019 findings from their annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) in which considerable emphasis is placed on the topic of paid child care in particular the use of care, the factors that drive families to engage with care, difficulties experienced with care and expenditure on care.

The Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Stuart Roberthas outlined a plan to resolve delays and backlogs for children living with disability in accessing Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI) supports through the NDIS.