Six leading not-for-profit OOSH providers are claiming the minimum staffing requirements in childcare services across NSW are unacceptable. They are calling for a two-educator model to be made mandatory to create safer environments for children, healthier workplaces for educators, and strengthened trust in the sector.
As a proud not-for-profit provider of outside school hours care (OSHC), the Y NSW has welcomed a key recommendation from a NSW Upper House Committee inquiry report on the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector, saying it reinforces the need to prioritise child safety in OSHC.
Kerryn Barnes has spent more than two decades serving in the Royal Australian Navy, from commanding patrol boats on Operation Sovereign Borders to representing Australian interests across Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. This year she has been posted to Canberra, meaning she can only come home on weekends, leaving wife Stacey to hold the fort with their son Josh, 8, who attends Y Hammondville Outside School Hours Care.
The Y NSW has launched Prioritising Child Safety, a statewide advocacy campaign calling for policy reform in outside school hours care (OSHC) services to deliver stronger safeguards and consistent supervision standards that put children’s safety and wellbeing first.
The Y NSW welcomes the recent release of ACECQA's rapid assessment of child safe practices across the ECEC sector.
At the Y NSW, we are calling for stronger safeguards to be implemented in Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) as soon as possible.
The Y NSW is thrilled to announce it has been selected as the Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) provider for Carlingford West Public School.
As the holiday season approaches, the Y NSW would like to wish its members a very merry time over the break. Changed opening hours are being introduced at Y NSW centres over the holiday period.
The community of Revesby came together on Sunday, April 19 to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Y Bankstown City.
During the month of October, the Y NSW is encouraging all young people to “Tune In” with the Y.
The Y NSW is celebrating 30 years of National Child Protection Week by rolling out one of the first child safety models co-designed by children and young people across a country. The Y NSW, which operates 27 Recreation and Leisure Facilities in NSW and the ACT, is demonstrating its continued commitment as a leader in ensuring children and young people are safe through its “Stay Safe, Tell Someone” program.
CHILDREN at the Y NSW’s Outside School Hours Care centres will celebrate the work of their Educators this week.
As NSW families scramble to manage the return to face-to-face school next week, the Y's Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) services have provided a lifeline for many essential workers and their children.
YMCA NSW (the Y) is encouraging the community to sweat its way through social distancing, providing all members, staff and volunteers with free access to more than 800 online training videos by LES MILLS.
Children are learning the true gift of giving this Christmas in the Central Coast, with the region’s five Y NSW Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) services banding together to donate to four worthy local causes.
Twelve YMCA NSW (The Y) services will be temporarily closed tomorrow to ensure the safety of staff, members and the broader community as bushfires threaten communities across the state.
On 30 May we advised families that YMCA NSW is changing to a fortnightly direct debit to align with the Government’s introduction of the Child Care Subsidy.
Over the past nine months we have been communicating with you about Australia’s New Child Care Package which commences on 2 July. As a provider of child care, we want to ensure we support families through this vast amount of change and supplement the information you have been provided by Centrelink.
On 30 May we advised families that YMCA NSW is changing to a fortnightly direct debit to align with the Government’s introduction of the Child Care Subsidy.
In July one new Child Care Subsidy will replace the two current child care payments. This means the child care fee assistance your family receives will change.
YMCA NSW is changing to a fortnightly direct debit to align with the Government’s introduction of the Child Care Subsidy.
On Monday 21 May YMCA NSW will launch a new online booking system for families to enrol in Before School, After School and Vacation Care. This is done through a parent portal called My Family Lounge.
By now, you should have received a letter from Centrelink asking you to complete a streamlined online Child Care Subsidy assessment.
From 2 July 2018, the child care fee subsidy your family receives will change.
The new Child Care Package commences 2 July 2018. To ensure you’re aware of how the new subsidy will affect you, we encourage you to prepare now with the following simple steps.
The new Child Care Package commences 2 July 2018 and we want you to be prepared. To support you through the transition to the new package, we’ll be providing information on the important steps you’ll need to take over the coming months.
As an approved provider of the NSW Active Kids program, we are making it easier for kids to be active with the $100 Active Kids Rebate, that can be claimed on YMCA recreational programs.
We’d like to let you know that YMCA NSW will no longer manage Blaxland OSHC from Friday 22 December onwards. Thanks for being a valued customer of the YMCA.
Marrickville, Kotara and Valentine OSHC services join over 45 YMCA NSW-run OSHC services that have achieved either ‘meeting’ or ‘exceeding’ ratings as reviewed by the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA).
YMCA NSW will no longer be running outside hours school care services (OSHC) out of Mount Riverview Public School.
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