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Childcare centres raising fees is in-line with inflation, says early childhood education minister

Minister for early childhood education Anne Aly says childcare centres increasing fees pre-emptively will not cancel out the federal government’s new childcare subsidies.

It’s pretty standard for centres to raise their costs around this time of year, in line with CPI.

It’s in-line with inflation and it’s pretty average of what the centres are charging around now. This is a very complex and mixed market, it includes NFP, community run, council run and right through to big corporates.

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