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Choosing a daycare service
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The challenges in finding a good daycare centre in Australia are location, quality of daycare service, and availability. Particularly in the capital cities, many parents complain about not getting the right daycare centre they want for their children. Many favoured childcare facilities have waiting lists for new entrants, which frustrates working mothers from going back to work right away.
With over 1,100 branches, the largest chain in Australia is ABC Learning Centres, which flourished with the government's shift from federally-funded daycare to private business delegation, coupled with subsidies for parents enrolling their children into accredited daycare centres.
A good place to start is with lists of associations, like for family daycare centres at the state level, and the National Childcare Accreditation Council [http://www.ncac.gov.au]. Searching for childcare centres starts online with these institutions.
National Childcare Accreditation Council publishes a manual for the evaluation of daycare centres, focusing on safety guidelines, promoting positive experiences between your child and other children, nutrition, treatment by the daycare staff and learning progress.
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