A council in Melbourne’s south-east is considering closing three childcare centres, leaving dozens of families scrambling to find other vacancies before the new year.
Glen Eira City Council told families via email on Wednesday night of the preliminary decision to close its three early learning centres in Caulfield, Carnegie and Murrumbeena.If the decision goes ahead, the centres will close four days before Christmas.
Berrin’s two eldest children attend Caulfield Early Learning Centre – one for five days and the other for three. He had been in the process of enrolling his younger child for a fourth day so he could return to full-time work and was planning on sending his six-month-old son next year.Berrin said most childcare centres in the area had already completed their enrolments for next year and he could not understand the urgency behind the council’s sudden move.“I was flabbergasted.
Magee said on Thursday that the centres offered free kinder, but it was not a factor in Glen Eira’s decision. A fourth council-owned early learning centre in Bentleigh East was leased by a not-for-profit provider and would be unaffected by the review.Magee said there were 148 families using the three services and data had shown they had dropped to 78 per cent capacity. Other modelling, meanwhile, showed there were 1.5 available childcare places for each child in the area.
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