'There's definitely a shortage': Short-staffed centres sending kids home

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Updated August 19 2022 - 9:38pm, first published August 17 2022 - 4:00am
'REWARDING': Staff at Insight Early Learning Centre which opened in Dubbo in November last year. Picture: Belinda Soole
'REWARDING': Staff at Insight Early Learning Centre which opened in Dubbo in November last year. Picture: Belinda Soole

The opening of a new child care centre in Dubbo earlier this month was a "massive relief" to desperate parents who have waited months for a placement. But a shortage of childcare workers in the area is making it difficult for existing centres to operate at full capacity.

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Allison Hore

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Allison Hore is a journalist with the Daily Liberal.

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