The Wire

The push to drive Australian’s into the workforce – and to keep them there for longer – has lent new urgency to demands for accessible, affordable, high quality child-care. Who’s job is it to make sure standards are met? Working parents are worried about lax practise in large profit-driven commercial care centres and experts fear less affluent workers will suffer without government intervention and support. The role of community centres in child care is waning, but the public is reluctant to see it go.