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["1","","Australia is in the midst of the biggest baby boom in its history","Saturday, 1 January 2012<br/><p>Australia is now in the midst of the biggest baby boom in our history. Final figures for 2011 are expected to show the number of births topping 300,000 eclipsing the 250,000 children born at the peak of the original baby boom in 1961.</p>"]
,["2","","Online reviews worry some operators","Sunday, 8 January 2012<br/><p>Parents will soon be able to rate their childcare centre online and share their reviews with others. The online childcare directory CareforKids is preparing to launch the TripAdvisor-style ratings system for users of childcare services, the first system of its kind in Australia and two years ahead of a promised federal government rating website.</p>"]
,["3","","Preschool standards shock","Sunday, 8 January 2012<br/><p>The educational prospects of the nation\'s children are being jeopardised by a &quot;very poor&quot; standard of teaching in preschools, a government-funded national study into the quality of early education has found.</p>"]
,["4","","Increased rebates helping keep childcare costs down, report reveals","Monday, 9 January 2012<br/><p>Families spent a significantly lower proportion of their income on childcare last year than they did in 2004, an official report shows.</p>"]
,["5","","Staff hard to come by as childcare centres struggle with reforms","Monday, 16 January 2012<br/><p>A&nbsp;regional NSW childcare centre risks losing its accreditation after a fruitless two-year search to fill a single vacancy for a university qualified teacher and carer.</p>"]
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