The Victorian Greens are calling on the Premier to commit to releasing critical documents relating to childcare safety, saying that parents deserve transparency and accountability over political damage control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It comes after today the Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allan said she will not apologise for failing to meet the deadline to produce documents relating to childcare safety<\/a> that were requested by the Greens last month prior to horrific allegations of child sexual abuse in the sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Victorian Greens motion<\/a> was respectfully worded with sensitivity to children\u2019s privacy and limited in scope to only capture the documents that would be needed to see the full picture of what\u2019s happening in our childcare sector. The same documents were released in New South Wales following a motion from Greens MP Abigail Boyd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Labor consistently disobeys the standing orders and defies the rules of the Parliament when it comes to producing documents, but the Greens say that they will be holding them to account and that they must commit to a deadline for releasing critical documents relating to children\u2019s safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Victorian Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood, Anasina Gray-Barberio:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cParents are going through hell right now and to hear that the Premier won\u2019t apologise for failing to release documents relating to their children\u2019s safety is shameful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe fact the Premier is lashing at the Greens to try and take the heat off herself just proves that Labor is more focussed on politics and damage control than children\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe truth is that Labor never provides documents and routinely breaks the rules of the Parliament. For the most part, the rest of us have just had to cope with that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe really thought that this time, given the scale of what\u2019s happening in our childcare system, that Labor would put politics aside and choose transparency for every family that\u2019s living their worst nightmare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur childcare sector is in crisis and if Labor won\u2019t be honest with Victorian families about what\u2019s going on, how are we meant to fix it? Of all the moments to follow the rules and do the right thing – this should be it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens are calling on the Premier to commit to releasing critical documents relating to childcare safety, saying that parents deserve transparency and accountability over political damage control. It comes after today the Victorian Labor Premier Jacinta Allan said she will not apologise for failing to meet the deadline to produce documents relating to childcare … Continue reading “NO APOLOGY, NO TRANSPARENCY, GREENS SAY LABOR MUST COMMIT TO RELEASING CHILDCARE SAFETY DOCUMENTS”<\/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-33816","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\/33816","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=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33817,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions\/33817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}