Nanny pilot program axed amid low take-up

A national nanny pilot programme aimed at helping parents juggle work and family has been axed in the mid-year budget review, less than two years after it was introduced. The Federal Government had allocated $246 million to the scheme but, with the take-up rate much lower than anticipated, it has stripped $170 million from the scheme over the next two years. Just over 200 families have signed up to the program, with parents saying the scheme was neither well thought out, nor financially viable f