Responding to the closure of 65 Ignite Minds family day care centres across Victoria following an investigation by the Victorian Education and Care Regulatory Authority (VERA), Greens Early Childhood Education and Care spokesperson Senator Steph Hodgins-May said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe need to stop pretending that a market designed to prop up private profits can deliver the early learning system children and families deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFamilies are getting sick of waking up to another childcare horror story. When will enough be enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile we commend VERA for its investigation and swift action, simply closing centres doesn\u2019t address the root cause of what has gone horribly wrong with early learning in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Commonwealth must urgently step in to support the families affected by these closures, who may now be scrambling to find alternative care and support for their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut ultimately, we need a reckoning: the system is broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor-profit providers have been allowed to operate to unsafe standards, putting profits ahead of care and quality education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cClosing centres when things go wrong and putting out spot fires will never fix the underlying problem or restore families\u2019 trust in the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFamilies deserve a universal, high-quality and affordable early learning system where they don\u2019t have to go to bed wondering \u2018will my childcare centre be in the headlines tomorrow?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUntil the Albanese Government confronts the fundamental failings of the market model these headlines will keep coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Responding to the closure of 65 Ignite Minds family day care centres across Victoria following an investigation by the Victorian Education and Care Regulatory Authority (VERA), Greens Early Childhood Education and Care spokesperson Senator Steph Hodgins-May said: \u201cWe need to stop pretending that a market designed to prop up private profits can deliver the early … Continue reading “Greens say mass closure of for-profit family day care centres more proof the market model is failing”<\/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-40524","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\/40524","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=40524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40525,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions\/40525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}