Parents in Broome, a regional area in Australia, are struggling to find childcare services for their children. The lack of available childcare places forces parents to rely on informal babysitting options, causing financial and logistical challenges.
Every few months, Emma Douglas would have to scour Broome 's Facebook groups for a new babysitter. The babysitter wasn't for her school-age children, but for her then-toddler Lulu, for whom she couldn't access a childcare place.
" be posting on the Broome babysitting Facebook pages, begging, begging for a babysitter that could fit in with the days that I needed," she told Ms Douglas and her family moved to Broome in early 2022, not realising the challenge they would face in accessing this essential service. "My employer held the job for me for six months. In the end … I had to just forfeit the job so that they can actually find someone else to put in that position," she said.It proved financially impossible, and eventually, Ms Douglas returned to work while pursuing informal babysitting options, often with backpackers."For a lot of people in Broome, and in a lot of regional areas, we don't have family around to support us either. So we don't really have anyone to lean on when you can't get child care," she said."I was ringing the centres regularl
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