Posts tagged "childcare costs"

Next month’s budget will include $10.8 million to fund the inquiry, with government sources emphasising the probe would be very rigorous and operators would be put on the spot to explain high fees.

The arrival of buy now, pay later services to childcare centres shows just how broken the childcare system really is, writes Angela Priestley.

The $1000 a month childcare payment is one of a number of policies that emerged after PEXA actively sought to ask people about the pain points they were experiencing.

Out-of-pocket childcare costs are 2.4% higher than this time last year, which is twice the inflation rate for all other goods and services.