Marsupial

joined 2 years ago
 

This popped up not long after my last post about early childhood abuses yesterday.

Education and other social services should never be run for profit.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 8 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your sacrifice. I hope one day we win.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All they got was a $40k fine.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yes and his party has suggested increasing educator ratios from 1 educator to every 11 children to 1 to 50.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really upsets me to see this, and points to the lack of funding for regulatory inspections. This should have been more heavily inspected, especially as they’ll provider kept failing centres.

In my nursery room I set out to outright ban high chairs and other restrictive devices from the space late last year, to know children were going hours in them when I wasn’t even comfortable with seeing them for a minute or two once they want out is horrific.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes all early learning centres are rated by ACEQUA and you can search their database online:

https://www.acecqa.gov.au/resources/national-registers/services

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"There's a certain level of decorum that I expect from political leaders, especially in front of cameras," Nate Vance - who spent three years volunteering with the Ukrainian military after Russia's full-scale invasion - told the BBC.

Dude even volunteered.

 

In a speech in NSW Parliament’s upper house yesterday, Ms Munro bluntly stated that regulations on ratios should change to cut costs in the sector.

“There are ways we can make childcare cheaper. We can change the regulations around educators who are childcare providers,” she said.

“We don’t need five or six highly educated people to look after 50 kids. Maybe we need one.”

This is a stark contrast to the current National Quality Framework, which mandates a maximum ratio of one educator for 10 children over three years old.

 

What’s the bet this’ll end up with Sky News installed on all new TVs by default.