‘Childcare deserts’: NSW government’s $5bn boost to sector may ‘empower women’
by Tamsin Rose from World news | The Guardian on (#60B62)
Advocates hope other states will follow suit with reforms to help lift workforce participation
Childcare advocates and those working to boost the number of mothers in the workforce have welcomed a $5bn boost to the sector that the New South Wales government will use to target areas with a shortage of places.
The premier, Dominic Perrottet, described the policy as a once-in-a-generation reform" that would create 47,000 extra childcare spots and eventually drive $17bn in economic activity a year.
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