The government should be paying more for childcare. Instead families are struggling with costs | Jen Jackson for the Conversation

Many families are being forced to choose affordability over quality in crucial learning years

An Australian family on the average wage typically spends close to A$6,000 out of pocket per year on child care, a new analysis from the Mitchell Institute shows. This is more than the average cost of sending a child to a private primary school.

Unlike the school sector, families don’t have the option to choose a low cost publicly delivered childcare service.

This article was originally published in The Conversation

Jen Jackson is the education policy lead at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University

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