Category: social-services
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Victoria’s substantial investment in Fee Kinder and state-built childcare centres remains unproven. Results so far suggest that while early learning improves cognitive outcomes, the gap between rich and poor students is actually widening. Potential “human capital” benefits (such as increased NAPLAN scores) are not shared across socio-economic groups and may not be sufficient to build…
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The withdrawal of local councils from childcare, aged care, and other frontline community services is one of the biggest changes in Victoria’s local government sector. Due to state-imposed rate caps and rising costs, many councils have stopped providing these services directly and transferred them to private companies or large non-profit organisations. Google backgrounder The widespread…
Mel Yuan for Brunswick 