1 July 1999 - Childcare still hurting
25 May 1998 - ACT community makes a
stand at Senate Inquiry into Child Care Funding
22 September 1997 - Childcare Survey confirms
major concerns about cuts to childcare.
1 July 1997 - Red Flower Day - Your
chance to take a stand against childcare cuts
13 June 1997 - Carers condemn
Government
30 May 1997 - 1997 Childcare Summit: - 200 gather
to express their anger...
28 May 1997 - Invitation to attend the 1997 Childcare Summit
12 May 1997 - ACT Childcare reflects Howard's attack on
women
13 May 1997 - Pay more, opt out or put up with lower
standards of care: Howard' s choice for families
13 December 1996 - Minister delays
urgently-needed Family Day Care places in the ACT
13 December 1996 - EPAC Report: the end of Child Care as we know it.
21 August 1996 - Child Care will be crippled over the
next three years
Please note that this listing is not complete.
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1 July 1999 - Media Release
Childcare still hurting
Two years on from Red Flower Day, Senator Kate Lundy today announced that Child Care organisations Australia-wide are, more than ever, feeling the effects of over $850 million of Budget cuts.
"The need for Child Care organisations to tighten their belts has all but led to the suffocation of services. Child Carers are no longer able to be as flexible and responsive as they want to be.
It is increasingly difficult to budget and provide staff for varying numbers of children from day to day, as parents take up alternative means of child care. It is also more and more difficult to deal with children with special needs on limited resources." Senator Lundy said.
In a launch at Parliament House of a renewed campaign against these cuts, Senator Lundy was joined by representatives from Child Care organisations around the ACT, and members of the LHMU.
"We are seeing Child Care Centres in a state of crisis, and in the difficult position of not wanting to increase fees less children suffer from the ensuing lack of appropriate, affordable child care." Senator Lundy said.
"Labor is continuing its campaign to make the Government see that their cuts to funding are causing great pain to Child Care centres, parents and children across the country."
Postcards demanding that the Prime Minister reverse the tide against child care funding were launched at the protest. Campaigners were invited to fill in the postcards and send them to the Prime Minister to highlight the increased and prolonged effects his Government’s cuts are having in the child care industry.
63/99 Media Contact Ann Milne 6277 3334
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