Childcare industry payments still not clear five weeks after creches were shut

Subsidy payments designed to bolster the country’s childcare industry have yet to come online five weeks after creches across the country were closed.

Last week, Katherine Zappone, the children’s minister, informed childcare providers that the new system for Covid-19 supports in the industry would come online from April 14, with those impacted expected to sign up by close of business on the same date.