One in four Aussies in 'childcare deserts' missing out

Mitchell Institute director Peter Hurley outlines childcare challenges facing regional areas. Video via AAP.

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00:00where you live matters when it comes to accessibility to childcare.

00:03What we found was that inner metropolitan areas had much better accessibility to childcare

00:08than other metropolitan areas, and metropolitan areas overall had much, much better access

00:12than regional areas.

00:15And there was a really strong finding there that regional areas actually had the lowest

00:20levels of accessibility.

00:21All right, so this is a map of childcare accessibility for Sydney.

00:26The blue areas have greater levels of childcare access, and the red areas have lower levels.

00:31And what you kind of get is you can see in the, you know, closer to the CBD, and probably

00:36in the more advantaged areas, it's blue, there's more childcare available.

00:40And as you go further out, you get less and less.