Child Care News
Rudd office vague on sector's regulation
The Age - Misha Schubert - March 1, 2008IF HE was looking to buy political insurance, embattled child care magnate Eddy Groves may have run out of luck last November. A fellow traveller with the...
ABC childcare shareholders may sue
NEWS.com.au - March 1, 2008And the shareholder advocates' group believes the case against the besieged childcare operator is strong. But despite the worrying state of its financial...
Childcare magnate's fight for survival
Courier Mail - Liam Walsh - March 1, 2008The man who built ABC Learning Centres into a multinational childcare network out of a milk run this week saw the stock price of his company crash...
Child care: not as easy as ABC
Brisbane Times – Deborah Brennan – February 29, 2008The drama surrounding child-care group ABC Learning suggests it is time to rethink aspects of Australia's approach to the provision of early childhood...
Manual for `gentle parenting'
Courier Mail - Jane Barry - February 29, 2008Some years ago she gravitated to writing and has published four books on baby and child care. Her most recent, Toddler Tactics, was produced as her first...
ABC Learning: 'We kept market aware'
Melbourne Herald Sun - Liam Walsh and Josh Robertson - February 29, 2008EMBATTLED childcare giant ABC Learning Centres has argued it kept the market aware profits would be vastly different...
The road to corporate learning begins in child care
The Age - February 29, 2008THE effects of the ABC Learning debacle, which continue to reverberate as the week goes on, raise many questions about financial and corporate propriety...
Canberra queries child-care giant ABC on viability
The Age - Misha Schubert and Dewi Cooke - February 29, 2008EMBATTLED child-care giant ABC Learning has been forced to reassure the Federal Government of its ongoing viability...
Rudd keeping an eye on ABC Learning Centres
Melbourne Herald Sun - February 28, 2008THE Federal Government is closely monitoring the troubled childcare provider ABC Learning Centres, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today...
Future of 2000 ABC Learning childcare centres in doubt
NEWS.com.au – February 28, 2008THE future of more than 2000 ABC Learning childcare centres is in doubt today after under-siege boss Eddy Groves admitted he is selling off parts of the...
ABC bosses in $50m stock dump
NEWS.com.au - Michael Sainsbury and Adele Ferguson - February 28, 2008ABC directors were forced to dump $52 million worth of shares, and ASIC is examining insider trading and poor disclosure claims.
The baby blues: Study finds a third of mothers slip down career ladder
The Guardian (UK) - Lucy Ward - February 27, 2008...research published today reveals for the first time the extent to which professional women are forced to slide down the career ladder to find jobs that allow them to spend time with their family...
ABC Learning up for sale, trading halted
NEWS.com.au - February 27, 2008ABC Learning shares have been suspended after the company said parts of the business could be sold...
ABC's landlord takes a beating
Sydney Morning Herald - February 27, 2008It hurts now, but the property trust might find itself in line for some great child-care bargains. IT was a tough day for anything associated with the beleaguered child-care operator...
Summit sought on childcare abuse
NEWS.com.au – Peter Mickelburough - February 27, 2008A NATIONAL childcare summit has been called for after the Herald Sun highlighted the mistreatment and abuse of infants and children in child care...
