child care cost

Childcare workers are to get a pay rise. The question is being asked, Who should pay the extra wages? The answer is obvious: The employer -- the childcare centre -- pays the now-mandated wages. It's basic free-market economic theory.

The business, childcare, pays for the necessary resources, including childcare staff. Some of the cost is negotiable but not the legal minimum wage.

Business owners and managers ensure that the business uses its resources to provide services.

Services are then sold to clients -- parents. Any parents who do not want or cannot afford to pay for the services -- do not purchase the services. They find alternatives. They may even, shock horror, care for their own children.

It's a free market economy, with childcare providers free to provide services and to make a profit. With parents free to choose to use, or not use, those services.

An  alternative is for the government to take control. To provide the services. Perhaps as a subset of education. With government curricula, taxpayer-funded resources and no profit motive. In effect, the government, taxpayer, pays to cover and standardise one of the major costs of indiscriminate breeding.

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
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