Childcare costs are now so high that increasing numbers of parents are finding it doesn’t pay for both of them to work.
But with many households needing dual income, is there anything mothers and fathers of younger children can do to beat the costs?
We reveal the essential information parents need to know on childcare and speak to experts to find out what you can do to make work pay.
Costs: The average cost of a full-time 50-hour-a-week nursery place
An AFP investigation has led to a former childcare worker being charged with 1623 child abuse offences against 91 children – including 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10 – in Brisbane, Sydney and overseas between 2007 and 2022.
The Gold Coast man, 45, has been in custody in Queensland since August 2022 when the AFP arrested and charged him initially with two counts of making child exploitation material and one count
