The Future Care Project

29/08/2026

When childcare services fall short, as they do more often in regional Victoria than in the city, grandparents are stepping up to fill the gap. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4qD6INo

28/08/2026

Zero. That's how many childcare sites the latest federal funding round delivered to Western Queensland. A funding round which promised to reach regional, rural and remote communities.

This week I stood on the main stage at the 7th WQAC Assembly to explain why that number and policies holding back an entire region's workforce. Childcare shared the agenda with disaster funding, water, airfares and connectivity, exactly where it belongs. I joined Rachael Webster (RAPAD) and Mayor Tony Rayner and here’s what got it there.

A years worth of evidence.

Two ECEC Action Forums in Longreach and Blackall. A Regional Childcare Access Survey across all seven Central West LGAs. Senate Submissions. The funding map analysis that surfaced that zero in the first place.

Our next step is expanding the service mapping and data collection to show the true scale of the invisible gap, both the missing care on the ground and the funding and policy settings that keep bypassing our communities. Again and again …. and again.

And the window is open right now. The Senate inquiry into ECEC access for rural, regional and remote communities is underway and will close on the 29th September. This is the moment our evidence gets heard or gets shelved.

Reach out if you want to be apart of rewriting the future of regional Australia and a future where access to care and a thriving ecconomy isn’t based on your postcode.

Thank you WQAC for putting kids of the country on the main stage.

28/08/2026

A little re-introduction 👋

I’m Angela - mum of three, business owner and founder of The Future Care Project.

I didn’t set out to work in the advocacy space. But after moving to Goondiwindi, experiencing a two-year waitlist myself and seeing the impact limited childcare was having on local families, businesses and jobs, I couldn’t ignore it.

That experience became the start of The Future Care Project.

Now, I’m working to help make quality, flexible childcare more accessible for regional, rural and remote families.

Because where a family lives shouldn’t determine the opportunities available to them💜

27/08/2026

Government policies are strangling childcare expansion leaving families waiting for years, a centre owner says https://bit.ly/4zFl8R2

26/08/2026

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19/08/2026

Last call. The Regional Childcare Needs Survey closes 21 August.

If you’ve been waitlisted, turned away, priced out, forced out of work or forced to choose between the business and the kids, this survey is where that story becomes evidence.

Every response strengthens the case for change. Every gap in the data is a regional family whose experience risks being left out of the picture.

Take 10 minutes to be counted, then send the survey to one other parent, grandparent or employer who gets it.

The case for better childcare out here is being built one response at a time. Make sure yours is part of it.

Live or work in Barcaldine, Barcoo, Blackall-Tambo, Boulia, Diamantina, Longreach or Winton shires? This is for you. Take the survey now via our website.

18/08/2026

👋 SEE YOU NEXT WEEK BRISBANE!

In just under a week we'll welcome delegates to Brisbane for the 7th WQAC Assembly, 25–27 August 2026, bringing together leaders, partners and advocates committed to strong regional communities.

With the theme “Beyond the Range: Built Tough, Thinking Bold”, the program will explore the funding, future planning, connectivity and the capability of a region that continues to deliver while weathering the peaks and troughs of all seasons across its vast rural and remote areas.



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