US EditionChildcare Centres Will Have Funding Stripped if They’re Not ‘up to Scratch’. Is This Enough?
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, JUL 22 – Labor aims to enforce safety standards by cutting federal childcare funding, covering about $16 billion annually, following abuse allegations and royal commission advice.
- On Wednesday, Education Minister Jason Clare introduced legislation giving the Commonwealth power to cut childcare subsidies for underperforming centres, responding to sexual abuse allegations at a Melbourne centre.
- After Victoria Police revealed charges against Joshua Dale Brown earlier this month, national outrage forced Labor to implement royal commission recommendations.
- Under the proposed bill, compliance officers could enter childcare centres without a warrant and the federal education department could suspend or cancel funding for noncompliant services.
- With bipartisan backing, the Coalition said it would work with the government on safety, and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley welcomed the swift action, indicating broad support.
- Ahead of next month’s attorneys-general meeting, further reforms will bolster checks and deploy CCTV, with Michelle Rowland vowing to establish a national Working With Children check system.
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Childcare centres to lose funding if safety standards breached under Labor’s new legislation
Labor is expecting the Opposition to back its new legislation to crackdown on childcare centres in the wake of shocking sexual abuse allegations. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has promised to be constructive, as the first female leader of a major party to step up to the dispatch box since Julia Gillard twelve years ago.
Childcare centres will have funding stripped if they’re not ‘up to scratch’. Is this enough?
Maskot/Getty Images Childcare centres will lose their eligibility for fee subsidies if they don’t meet safety standards, according to a new bill introduced to parliament on Wednesday. As Education Minister Jason Clare told parliament: it will give us the power to cut off funding to childcare centres that aren’t up to scratch. The bill follows recent allegations a Victorian childcare worker abused children in his care. There have also been alleg…
Labor Pushes Childcare Reforms Including CCTV and Funding Cuts Amid Mass Abuse Scandal
Labor has introduced legislation to strip federal funding from childcare centres that fail to meet safety and quality standards, in response to shocking abuse allegations at a Melbourne centre. The move comes after 26-year-old Joshua Dale Brown was charged with over 70 offences while working at Creative Garden Early Learning Centre in Point Cook—despite having passed a “Working With Children” check. Education Minister Jason Clare said the bill, …
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