{"id":12443,"date":"2021-08-10T03:48:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2021-08-10T03:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T03:48:05","slug":"early-educators-report-shows-a-sector-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/10\/early-educators-report-shows-a-sector-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Early educators report shows a sector in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the release today of the Big Steps\/United Workers Union report\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bigsteps.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Exhausted-undervalued-and-leaving.pdf\">Exhausted, Undervalued and Leaving: The Crisis in Early Education<\/a><\/em>. The survey of more than 3,800 educators finds a sector at \u2018breaking point\u2019, with high turnover, low pay, and no plan from the Federal Government to fix it.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis report makes for very alarming reading. This is a story of government neglect, an undervalued workforce, privatisation, and an essential service delivered on the back of burnt-out staff.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a national shame that early educators are taken for granted in this country. Staff are leaving in droves and frankly the sector is in crisis. We should not be in a situation of chronic understaffing and high turnover.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government needs to completely rethink its approach to early learning and care. That means strong and sustained investment to make early childhood education free once more, and a workforce strategy that deals directly with issues of low pay and understaffing.<br \/>\n\u201cPerhaps not surprisingly, this report finds worse results for staff in for-profit centres as opposed to not-for-profit services. Education is not a business.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens back the Big Steps campaign and the call for a workforce strategy that delivers higher wages for early educators. Early learning is invaluable for children and educators deserve our utmost respect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the release today of the Big Steps\/United Workers Union report\u00a0Exhausted, Undervalued and Leaving: The Crisis in Early Education. The survey of more than 3,800 educators finds a sector at \u2018breaking point\u2019, with high turnover, low pay, and no plan from the Federal Government to fix it. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/10\/early-educators-report-shows-a-sector-in-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early educators report shows a sector in crisis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}