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CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

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Puzzle Consulting Director presented to over 250 delegates at the What's Down the Track Forum regarding Childcare in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
  • 20% of our City population are couples or one parent families with school age children, that are in a combination of full-time and part-time work (24% of our City population are their children)
  • In the last decade, demand for child care has grown by 77%
  • There are currently 537 children waiting for care (excluding school holiday care)


we need to talk about childcare

24/4/2018

 
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We continually hear stories of the struggle to secure child care for families in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. There were also quality and affordability concerns.  So late last year we quantified what seemed anecdotally to be a major issue for Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Completely overwhelmed by the response, almost 300 families completed the survey and the results have been compiled into a report you can download.


Critically, what this illustrates is in Kalgoorlie-Boulder we need to (at least):
  • Support our current centres to upgrade infrastructure and facilities to improve the quality and where possible the number of licensed places.
  • Support local child care workforce development, the ensure we have a large pool of highly trained and well supported child care staff.
  • Proactively support people who are seeking to establish centres in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
  • Consider some innovative and creative ways to expand our child care offerings including school based before and after school care,  a bub desk model, or employer based creche, specific programs to support au pairs in our region and at least one centre with expanded hours and/or ability to better cater for mining based shift work.

​We have been pleased to complete this work pro-bono on behalf of the community, hope it contributes to a productive conversation about improving child care in our town.



CHILDCARE IN KALGOORLIE REPORT
File Size: 505 kb
File Type: pdf
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