"Last year my waiting list had approximately 20 mothers with children, of which I only took on four new families," Ms Burns said.
"We can help start up services quite quickly because it's around the individual educator," Children Services coordinator Louise Hutton said. Charles Sturt University senior lecturer in early childhood education Leanne Gibbs said remote areas were in desperate need of both child care and family day care centres so children had access to a wide range of quality care.
"There's a chronic undersupply and, regardless of the number of services that we have, we don't have the workforce that we need in those areas to actually staff those centres," Ms Gibbs said.
Starting your own businesses instead of pleading for handouts, who’da thunk it
It would be easy if f-wits hadn't made childcare qualifications mandatory.