Choosing child care when returning to paid work can be hard and to the uninitiated the terms can be confusing. One alternative to long day care in a larger centre is known as family day care.
Governments spend less than half the amount per child in early childhood education compared to what they spend per child in school.
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Many families already shop around for childcare and still face major barriers such as availability. And shopping around is not a realistic option for many living in disadvantaged areas.
Intergenerational care programs encourage relationship building between generations.
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Intergenerational care gives children and older people the chance to interact, resulting in significant benefits for participants and the wider community.
If vintage city design used to trap women in suburbia, what’s the modern city looking like?
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In the 1970s, a young urban planning professor, Dolores Hayden, believed that city design was the key to unlocking patriarchal structures that trapped women in the home. How much has the city changed?
In 2016 South Africa had over 300 000 children up to the age of 14 living with HIV.
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