Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a US based provider of child care, early education and other services has released its financial results for 2018 in which it reports a 9 per cent increase in revenues and 16 per cent increase in income from operations.

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider, Goodstart Early Learning, has been recognised for its commitment to providing career pathways for young Indigenous people at an awards dinner held earlier in February.

Spensley Street outside school hours care (OSHC) co-ordinator Lisa Heard describes deleting the quality improvement plan (QIP) for her service as “the best thing” she ever did, and an integral part of supporting her service to move from a rating of “working towards” to “exceeding” the National Quality Standards (NQS).  

Queensland not for profit (NFP) early childhood education and care (ECEC) provider, South Burnett CTC advised staff and parents on 7 February that childcare services in Nanango, Queensland, would be closing, effective 29 March, following “ten years of financial losses”.

Less than 5 per cent of education sites across Australia have received epilepsy specific training, exposing children to unnecessarily high levels of risk, Epilepsy Australia (EA) has said.