Brisbane’s Craigslea Kindergarten placed into voluntary administration

A once-idyllic northside Brisbane kindergarten has plunged further into turmoil, with the committee asking parents to pay more than $2000 for their own child’s artwork to help cover debts after declaring the C&K-affiliated centre had been placed into voluntary administration.

This masthead revealed earlier this month that C&K, as the governing body, had cut funding to Craigslea Community Kindergarten in Chermside West and launched an investigation into claims a parent was running the centre’s management committee on his own.

The bitter tensions among parents that led to an exodus of staff has since escalated, with Thomas D’Souza, the parent at the centre of the claims, writing a long and accusatory 1000-word email to families on the weekend saying the centre was now insolvent and had b