Jane thought her son was learning and playing at childcare. It was all fake
The child and others were left in highchairs for hours at a time, force fed, pinched, yanked, and thrown to the ground.
Disgusting, and a difficult read.
For the nearly ten years they were operating, none of the centres ever met minimum quality ratings.
Are these ratings public? Not that it would make it okay, but at least gives people half a chance of avoiding scum like this.
Anyway, once again the issue with relying on private companies that only care about money to manage something so important reveals itself.
And don’t forget the Spud wants to lower supervision ratios to 1:50.
Yes all early learning centres are rated by ACEQUA and you can search their database online:
https://www.acecqa.gov.au/resources/national-registers/services
We are well-past this stage, but at least the place that our kids attended is "Meeting NQS". Which stands to reason, it was a council-run centre.
Corporate documents show Thomas and Sally Fanous have now moved into a new industry: NDIS.
Just in case anyone was wondering, there are great, passionate, dedicated carers in the NDIS, but it's just the next unregulated industry awash with money.
Edit: also, there's plenty of great day cares in our area. Ours doesn't have restrictive chairs or anything like that. You just roll in whenever to pick them up, they're always doing cool activities.
All of the people who ever worked there deserve judicial punishment AND a court mandated ban to ever work with vulnerable people.
AND: Everyone who's job it was to make sure these facilities were up to standards and are adequately controlled needs to be helped responsible. That does intentionally not only mean the actual people doing the on-scene-audits, but also the people responsible for them. You can have the most upright and non corruptible people doing these audits - if they only have enough financing to have two for 2000 facilities they are useless.
This is the issue I have with privatisation. I actually think the private sector can and does do many things very well. However, when it comes time to tender bids, the contracts are so often lacking in monitoring and damages. Without a heavy penalty for this stuff, and knowing that quality controls are loose, bids are lowballed and quality is poor. This makes it appear that privatisation is cost effective, but users suffer. Any privatisation needs to occur via a third party tender and monitoring arm of government, else I think it safer for the state to directly administer childcare (and healthcare).
Doesn’t Dutton own a chain of childcare centres or something similar?
Yes and others in his party have suggested increasing educator ratios from 1 educator to every 11 children to 1 to 50.
1 to 50 isn't even really appropriate for fifteen year olds, let alone three year olds.
Only a greedy moron that doesn't actually care about anyone else would suggest such a thing.
My wife is a kinder teacher and has said how tragic this will be for some children. Children will die if this is allowed.
What a fucking nightmare that would be
I'm not Australian, but I'll ready the pitchforks.
It really upsets me to see this, and points to the lack of funding for regulatory inspections. This should have been more heavily inspected, especially as they’ll provider kept failing centres.
In my nursery room I set out to outright ban high chairs and other restrictive devices from the space late last year, to know children were going hours in them when I wasn’t even comfortable with seeing them for a minute or two once they want out is horrific.
Yeah.
The age old catch cry of conservative governments. Reduce red tape and regulations and let private industry sort themselves out.
JFC. How did they not get jailed for child abuse?
And now they're working with disabled people? Someone put a fucking bullet in these monsters.
While I understand the rage, can we not stoop to the level of back-ass-wards countries like the US and mandate capital punishment? The people involved absolutely deserve gaol time though, rather than just being fined.
All they got was a $40k fine.
Disgusting
This was heartbreaking. The doubt it puts in your mind even after seeing videos and photos of my kid being so happy at childcare...