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

00:07accessibility to childcare than other metropolitan areas

00:10and metropolitan areas overall had much much better access than

00:13regional areas and there was a really strong finding there that is

00:17that regional areas actually had the lowest levels of accessibility.

00:22All right so this is a map of childcare accessibility for Sydney.

00:25The blue areas have greater levels of childcare access and the red areas

00:30have lower levels and what you kind of get is you can see in the

00:34closer to the CBD and probably in the more advantaged areas it's blue

00:38there's more childcare available and as you go further out you get less and less.