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The Nightly5d
Australian childcare and early learning centres face stricter rules under new safety crackdown
Stricter rules will apply to childcare and early learning centres in a push to bolster safety for children after damning ...
SmartCompany6mon
19 ABC Learning Centres to close
Corporate recovery firm PPB has announced that it has found buyers for the majority of the 241 ABC Learning Centres under its control, but 19 will be closed. “This is an excellent outcome ...
The Australian Financial Review2y
Charities to buy ABC Learning centres
ABC Learning’s remaining child-care centres are to be sold to a syndicate made up of not-for-profit welfare groups for an estimated $15 million. Receiver Chris Honey named the GoodStart ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation9y
ABC Learning: ASIC probe ends; founder Eddie Groves exits bankruptcy
The corporate watchdog has ended its probe into the collapse of failed childcare company ABC Learning Centres, founded by enigmatic former multimillionaire Eddy Groves. ASIC said the Commonwealth ...
Crikey9y
Is Slater & Gordon ABC Learning all over again?
As Yogi Berra once said, it’s like deja vu all over again. That is, anyone who remembers the collapse of ABC Learning Centres will be having nightmares if they invested in embattled ASX-listed ...
The Australian10y
G8 defends expansion, says it’s not like ABC Learning Centres
One shareholder asked if G8’s expansion plans may see the company go the same way as Eddie Groves’ former ABC Learning Centres, which fell into voluntary liquidation in 2008 and was bought by ...
The Courier-Mail10y
Former ABC Learning Centres chief financial officer James Black pleads guilty to 1 charge after ASIC probe
SIX and a half years after childcare empire ABC Learning Centres went bust, the first criminal guilty plea has been entered. ABC’s former chief financial officer James Black on Monday pleaded ...
The Courier-Mail10y
Banks for ABC Learning Centres settle with liquidator Ferrier Hodgson
ONE of last strands of collapsed childcare operator ABC Learning has wound up ... Brisbane-based ABC had almost 2300 centres across four continents before going bust in November 2008.
Sydney Morning Herald13y
ABC Learning gets new name
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ABC Learning Centres are no more and will be rebranded as Goodstart Early Learning centres. Goodstart Early Learning, a not-for ...
Couriermail13y
Childcare firm ABC Learning Centres get name change
Goodstart Early Learning, a not-for-profit syndicate, will rebrand 650 ABC Learning Centres, which have been owned and operated since 2009, from today. ABC Learning Centres were founded by failed ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation13y
ABC Learning gets new start
The not-for-profit consortium that took over more than 650 ABC Learning childcare centres has launched its new name. The centres will be run under the Goodstart Early Learning banner. Goodstart ...