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Free daycare demand for jobless families


Free daycare demand for jobless families
Kids miss out on daycare when parents can’t pay the $14-per-day ‘gap fee’, child advocates warn
Parenting
by NATASHA BITA
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Exclusive: Childcare experts are demanding free daycare for kids with parents on the dole.
Early Childhood Australia chief executive Samantha Page said all children should be able to attend childcare at least two days a week - even if their parents are out of work or too poor to pay a gap fee.
Shonna-Lee Johnson and Christiana Rory building models at Indi Kindi. Picture: Wayne Quilliam
 
It is a complicated system and out of pocket costs are genuinely too high for some families, she said. ....

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