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Child Care News for Parents & Carers
September 4, 2019 |
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Kia ora, this week how New Zealand stacks up against other OECD countries when it comes to the cost of child care, also an interview with children's author Matt Cosgrove the creator of Macca The Alpaca.
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The high cost of child care for New Zealand families
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We all want the very best care for our children but there's no doubt that regular support from quality early childhood education and care providers comes at a price.
In New Zealand, child care costs have doubled over the last five years, and although the government offers 20 hours of free early childhood education for preschoolers, a means-tested Childcare Subsidy and an Out of School Care and Recreation Subsidy to ease the financial burden, it appears that Kiwi parents are spending more on child care than any other parents in the world.
Here, we look at the price of early education and care here, and in other countries.
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An interview with author
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Matt Cosgrove
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This week, we speak with children's book creator Matt Cosgrove, and give you a chance to WIN a Scholastic book pack.
Matt Cosgrove is the very talented author and illustrator behind the Macca the Alpaca series. His musical masterpiece, Alpacas with Maracas was chosen as the official story for National Simultaneous Storytime 2019, which saw 1,138,889 Australian and Kiwi kids reading the book, and now his brand-new title, Macca's Makeover is about to take the world by storm.
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