{"id":8310,"date":"2020-09-21T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2020-09-21T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:17:57","slug":"early-childhood-package-provides-no-long-term-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/early-childhood-package-provides-no-long-term-certainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood Package Provides No Long-term Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ministers.dese.gov.au\/tehan\/child-care-support-continues-aid-covid-recovery\">Child Care Recovery Package<\/a>, announced today, is yet another band-aid which does little to heal the wound. A long-term plan is needed for this essential service.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cAnnouncing sporadic measures in dribs and drabs every few months is no way to support early learning workers and families. The government must come up with a long term plan that involves proper funding and abolishing childcare fees.<br \/>\n\u201cEarly childhood educators were cut off from JobKeeper before anyone else, and the government still refuses to provide a wage guarantee.<br \/>\n\u201cRather than suspending the Activity Test until April, it should be scrapped for good.<br \/>\n\u201cEarly childhood education is an essential service. Educators, families and centres have had a horror 2020. It\u2019s time to provide long-term certainty for everyone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the latest\u00a0Child Care Recovery Package, announced today, is yet another band-aid which does little to heal the wound. A long-term plan is needed for this essential service. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cAnnouncing sporadic measures in dribs and drabs every few months is no way to support &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/21\/early-childhood-package-provides-no-long-term-certainty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Childhood Package Provides No Long-term Certainty&#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-8310","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\/8310","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=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}