4402.0 - Childhood Education and Care, Australia, June 2014

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Use of child care Work and child care Hours and cost of child care Need for additional formal care Early childhood education Informal learning About this Release History of Changes Grandparents are the main providers of informal care for children of working parents (Media Release)	NEED FOR ADDITIONAL FORMAL CHILD CARE In June 2014, there were 248,600 children whose parent reported a need for additional formal child care. Of these, almost half (49%) mainly required long day care, and 28% before or after school care. When considering all types of additional formal child care needs reported, the most common reason parents currently required the additional care was for work related purposes (153,300 children). In the majority of cases (67% or 165,900 children) one or two additional days a week of child care was required. (Table 18) Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.