Waitlists and demand for child care is on the rise in regional areas as educators increasingly leave the industry. Centres say its a crisis and federal support is urgently needed.
University of Queensland child development, education and care researcher Karen Thorpe said she found 35 per cent of early childhood educators in metropolitan areas quit after 12 months."We have people leaving, even though they have degrees, to go drive a truck, because you can earn $60,000 in early childhood and $100,000 as a truck driver," Professor Thorpe said.
Union representative Helen Gibbons said the wage rise was needed to address a sector-wide worker crisis."An educator told me the other day she works full time, she went to get a home loan and the bank told her she's living below the poverty line.""Educators are barely able to survive on the wages they are paid amid soaring cost-of-living increases," Ms Gibbons said.Lisa Lansdown says the sector is at risk of crumbling.
"We have families that want to put their children in an extra day because they're going back to work, and they need to work more," she said."We have tours coming through the door for children that haven't been born yet."
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