Today committee chair and Greens spokesperson for Children, Anasina Gray-Barberio handed down the interim report for the Inquiry into the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector in Victoria. The Greens-led inquiry has already resulted in better outcomes for child safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The inquiry received 99 written submissions and has held 5 days of public hearings so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This interim report released today gives an update on the evidence heard by the committee on issues such as quality of services, the growth in private, for profit-providers, child safety and well-being, and cultural safety for First Peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the inquiry was established, the national and state governments have made several important changes including improvements to working with children checks, establishing a new regulator, a national early childhood worker register, new offences and penalties, and a CCTV trial in certain centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These welcome steps are thanks to advocacy from the Greens and the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The select committee will continue its work with further hearings in May before presenting a final report by the end of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Victorian Greens spokesperson for Children and Committee Chair, Anasina Gray-Barberio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis Greens-led inquiry has already been effective in getting the state and federal governments to act on child safety. We\u2019ve seen tangible outcomes including improvements to working with children checks, establishing a new regulator, new offences and penalties and a CCTV trial in certain centres.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFamilies deserve real answers, and this is exactly what the Greens-led inquiry is providing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve heard too many stories of children being harmed while <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today committee chair and Greens spokesperson for Children, Anasina Gray-Barberio handed down the interim report for the Inquiry into the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector in Victoria. The Greens-led inquiry has already resulted in better outcomes for child safety. The inquiry received 99 written submissions and has held 5 days of public hearings so … Continue reading “Greens-led childcare inquiry results in more protections for children, interim report released 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-38232","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\/38232","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=38232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38233,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38232\/revisions\/38233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}