Childcare Funding Petition

This petition of Australian citizens draws the attention of the House to the withdrawal of Federal funding support for occasional childcare services.

For thousands of families in Australia, the withdrawal of this funding will remove a parent’s option of accessing occasional care at hundreds of community run centres, resulting in more children being forced out of formal and regulated care.

This directly disregards the committed aim of all Australian Governments to ensure safe and quality controlled ‘early childhood care’ nationwide.

We therefore ask the House to support the immediate reinstatement of the $12 million in occasional care funding removed in the Federal Budgets of 2010/11 and 2011/12.

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