Childcare pricing plan lags behind real fees

By Judith Ireland
Updated March 29 2015 - 1:28am, first published 12:15am
"There are better and fairer ways that benchmark pricing can be achieved": Social Services Minister Scott Morrisonvisits "Kinderoos" childcare centre in Bexley North. Photo: Daniel Munoz
"There are better and fairer ways that benchmark pricing can be achieved": Social Services Minister Scott Morrisonvisits "Kinderoos" childcare centre in Bexley North. Photo: Daniel Munoz

Three out of four childcare centres in Sydney are charging well above the Productivity Commission's proposed "benchmark" fees, new analysis reveals, as the federal government prepares to overhaul its $7 billion-a-year childcare policy.

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