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Future of childcare uncertain

Source: Inside Business
Published: Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:38 AEDT
Expires: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:38 AEDT

This week the nation's second largest childcare group CFK joined its bigger role model ABC Learning in the hands of the corporate undertakers. As well this week, the ABC Learning creditors' meeting was told it was still too early to say if anything could be salvaged from the wreckage and what the future held for 100,000 pre-schoolers dependent on the company's services.

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Tags: business-economics-and-finance, industry, community-and-society, family-and-children, child-care, australia

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