Forget knee-jerk measures - parents know the change needed for safer childcare

Forget knee-jerk measures - parents know the change needed for safer childcare

For as long as childcare centres are places for profit, patch-up solutions like those offered by my centre are all that parents will be offered.

Regulators need to make childcare breaches public to hold themselves and providers to account

Parents and carers deserve to know what issues a regulator has found with their chosen childcare or out of school hours (OHSC) provider, and if any action has been taken. Photo: Claire Fenwicke. Two female Sydney childcare workers have been charged for allegedly assaulting a 17-month-old boy in their care – not because a regulator raised the alarm but because the centre director called the police. Media outlets have been reporting for months abo…

Forget knee-jerk measures – parents know the change needed for safer childcare

As long as childcare centres are places for profit, patch-up solutions like those offered by my centre are all that parents will be offered.