On the day of a national meeting of Education Ministers, the Greens are urging ministers to go beyond band-aid fixes and tackle the systemic problems undermining safety and quality in childcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say yesterday\u2019s naming of 29 centres under new laws is a start, but it won\u2019t lift overall quality or address the deeper failures of the for-profit model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, the Greens announced they will move to establish a Senate Inquiry into the quality and safety of early education and care as soon as Parliament resumes. The inquiry will, among other things, examine how the childcare subsidy model props up for-profit providers and undermines standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australian Greens spokesperson for early childhood education and care, Senator Steph Hodgins-May:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMore and more evidence is mounting that the profit-driven model of early learning is failing by treating children as revenue streams, not as young people deserving of quality care and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs Education Ministers meet today I urge them to go beyond band-aid fixes and confront the real issue putting our kids at risk – a system that puts profit ahead of care. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe rapid review in Victoria warns providers are putting profits ahead of children\u2019s safety, while the recent NSW review exposed the inherent conflict between profit and quality care. When will the Government finally reckon with this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe difference is stark: only 13 per cent of for-profit centres exceed the national quality standard, compared with almost one-third of community and not-for-profit centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNaming and shaming poor quality providers is a first step, but it\u2019s not enough. These are our children we\u2019re talking about, not line items on a balance sheet.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the day of a national meeting of Education Ministers, the Greens are urging ministers to go beyond band-aid fixes and tackle the systemic problems undermining safety and quality in childcare. The Greens say yesterday\u2019s naming of 29 centres under new laws is a start, but it won\u2019t lift overall quality or address the deeper … Continue reading “Naming and shaming won\u2019t fix childcare, Greens urge ministers to confront the for-profit system at meeting today”<\/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-34474","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\/34474","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=34474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34475,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474\/revisions\/34475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}