Cutting the cost of childcare for families won’t help them if there are no places available at local childcare centres or people to staff them.
- Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
The government is paying childcare services in hot-spots 25% of pre-pandemic revenue. But without parents’ fees, the sector is still in a tough position.
A report uses an international benchmark of no more than 7% of disposable income spent on childcare to determine affordability. It finds childcare is unaffordable for 386,000 Australian families.
