I also have Matthew in home care one day a week and even then if he is sick I still have to pay! It really annoys me when it's because of the germ pool there that he gets sick.

Matthew has finally returned to daycare after being very sick for two weeks. We were back and forth to hospital thanks to him getting that Influenza virus (the one that killed the little ones in WA) from the childcare centre. He has been back two days (thurs and fri of last week) and now he has woken with green snot and a very nasty cough. That means three - four days incubation, so he got it from the centre again. Oh he also now has conjunctivitis in one eye. It's never ending!

So now he will probably be off sick again and I will have to take time off work again and we will go in circles again. At this rate they will probably fire me as I am only a temp!! I'm so angry about this!! Can you tell

Maybe the centres could look at having us pay a reduced rate when your child is not there? Why should we have to pay for something we are not using? I have been told it's to keep your child's place there..OK fine...they can have $5!!!