Parents in New South Wales who choose to keep their children at home during the lockdowns will not be required to pay childcare gap fees to keep their kids enrolled. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Education Minister Alan Tudge said the measures were designed to help take the financial pressure off both families and childcare businesses affected by the lockdowns. “If you normally enrol your kids three days a week in the childcare centre and … you don’t send your kid there, you just won’t be charged that fee,” Tudge told 2GB radio. Morrison said around 216,000 families across Greater Sydney could benefit from the measure, and that from the past experiences, the uptake is expected to be very strong. The waiver will begin on Monday, July 19, and will be up to individual childcare centres to opt-in. The gap fee is the difference between the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) …