Sebastopol's Brady Bunch Early Learning Centre opened a little over two years ago and within 12 months every one of its 110 places was full.
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Now with a waiting list of 30 families, daily inquiries about the availability of childcare and more housing estates being built, the company will build an even larger childcare centre just 2.5km away on Cherry Flat Road behind Delacombe Town Centre.
Brady Bunch Early Learning Centre director Rachel Condon said the rapid growth of estates around Delacombe, Sebastopol, Bonshaw, and Winter Valley meant there would be even more demand for childcare in the near future.
"Our waiting list just keeps building and building," she said.
Their existing centre in Baudinette Street, Sebastopol, employs 42 staff, most of whom live locally, and the new centre would employ a similar number.
"Our plan is that it will be quite a large centre to cater for the new area it will be in. And with our philosophy that we believe our centres should be situated in safe areas, there will be houses around us and a school is proposed to be built behind us."
Demand for childcare around the growth zone south west of the CBD has continued to grow despite several other newly opened childcare centres.
"We are a family-based business and what I want for my daughter is what I want for everyone here," she said. "We are part of the community where our families are coming from."
The new centre, which will have more than 110 places, will have its own dining room and a large playground with an Australian nature theme including a dry creek bed.
Like its Sebastopol centre, the new facility will also offers music and sports programs for all age groups in addition to regular educational and care programs.
Childcare centres have remained open during the coronavirus pandemic and Ms Condon said demand for places had not changed throughout the lockdown period although many families had been impacted through loss of jobs or reduced hours. Some families had temporarily given up or reduced their hours to allow for the increased hours that some children of essential workers had to be cared for.
Ms Condon said centre staff would support families through the early rollback of the federal government's free childcare scheme.
From that date the government will pay childcare services a "transition payment" of 25 per cent of their usual fee revenue until September 27 as it transitions back to the childcare subsidy system.
The $1500 per fortnight JobKeeper payments will cease for the childcare sector from July 20.
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"Obviously free childcare had a massive impact on the business - families were still enrolled but free and many families wanted an extra day.
"We were fortunate to have the capacity to have our staff on for normal hours and put casuals on and we didn't turn any families away."
Ms Condon said the government was still offering extra support for families who had lost jobs or income during the coronavirus pandemic, and centre staff would help families navigate through applying for the payments.
"We will support them through that. Families should jump on the mygov website and update their income details and activity because if parents are looking for work or returning to work the government are offering higher rates of childcare subsidy and ... we will help them through the application," she said.
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