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Linda Scott, with husband Liam Cooney and daughter and Remi Cooney, wants the council to allow families living .

Remi lives 200m from a kindergarten. The council has sent her to one 6km away

Parents living in Glen Eira are petitioning the council to give local families priority access at their nearest kinders to help smooth school transition.

  • Bridie Smith

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A Melbourne community kinder faces closure after talks to secure its future collapsed.

Swinburne, government fight leaves 50 kinder kids with nowhere to go

The federal government has attacked a major Melbourne university as a row over a community kindergarten goes all the way to the frontbench.

  • Noel Towell
Johnny & Celeste Kumar have 6 kids and are hoping their youngest will be able to attend a to-be-built preschool (in background) at St Christopher’s Catholic Primary School in Holsworthy.

Sydney private schools to receive cash for new preschools

Five independent and Catholic schools will receive almost $16 million in funding to build new preschools.

  • Emily Kowal
Griffith University reversed its decision to shit down its Nathan childcare centres before Christmas.

University reverses plan to shut childcare centres after parent backlash

Griffith University’s announcement it would close its Boronia and Tallowwood childcare centres sparked intense community anger.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Ash, educator at Goodstart Richmond with [left to right] Esmeralda, 2, Ripley, 2, and Henry, 4.

Seeing delight: recapturing the joy of early childhood education

A team of researchers is on a mission to rediscover the joy in the Australia’s embattled childcare sector.

  • Noel Towell
Craigslea Community Kindergarten in Chermside West; Thomas D’Souza, who is running its management committee.

Solution revealed for Brisbane kindy in limbo following art demand backlash

Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek said the government has found an emergency solution for the dozens of kids left without a kindy in Brisbane’s north.

  • James Hall
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Parents at the Craigslea Kindergarten fear the final term of kindy will be compromised by the ongoing committee dispute.

Regulators made a surprise visit to kindy in crisis – weeks before parents told to pay for kids’ art

Senior department officials from the regulatory authority have been investigating a Brisbane kindergarten for weeks.

  • James Hall
Craigslea Community Kindergarten in Chermside West; Thomas D’Souza, who is running the management committee at the embattled centre.

Parents asked to pay $2200 for their child’s artwork to clear kindy’s debt

A beloved kindy in Brisbane’s north has been placed into voluntary administration amid a bitter dispute over its management.

  • James Hall
Craigslea Kindergarten in Chermside West

Staff gone, kids kept home, funding paused: Inside a northside kindy’s crisis

A bitter dispute among staff and parents at a much-loved Brisbane community kindergarten has thrown the centre into chaos.

  • James Hall
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Mother blames Sydney daycare centre after grandfather takes wrong child home

The “traumatised” woman has taken aim at her toddler’s childcare centre for “losing him” for two hours after the mix-up involving another child’s grandfather.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Emily Kowal