Free child care to help nearly one million families, especially workers in essential services
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government will provide free child care in a move aimed at ensuring parents, especially in essential services, are able to keep working.
Without a rescue package large parts of the industry could have collapsed, leaving health and other workers finding it difficult or impossible to keep doing their jobs.
More than 945,000 families with 1.3...