Any parent who could has pulled their child out of childcare. The ones who haven’t are the ones who need their children there so they can do their jobs. But with only a few children coming, and bringing in fees and subsidies, services can’t afford to keep operating.
What should be a simple task of getting money to keep these essential services open becomes a game of whack-a-mole. They change the laws so parents can claim subsidies for allowable absences even if the child is kept at home. But they forget that a child has to physically attend on their last day – or all the subsidies must be repaid. They also forget that if a child doesn’t attend for 14 weeks they are automatically disenrolled and any money received for them has to be repaid.
Services have high wage bills and high rents so with occupancy rates crashing they are about to go as belly-up as other businesses in Australia. But there is a real difference between childcare and other businesses. There are no essential workers unless somebody is minding their children.Apparently the national cabinet is going to discuss childcare at its meeting on Friday but this may be too late.
It's why workplaces should have developed their own creches. They should have been tax deductible to the business or corporation and we wouldn't have to rely on irresponsible capitalist abuse of children.
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