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What needs to be done to give babies and children the best chance in life?
Submitted by Administrator on Fri, 28/07/2006 - 4:00pm.
In 1998 the Labor government established the Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP). The Commission plays a vital role in advising government on the welfare, wellbeing and safety of young people and children in NSW.
CCYP’s latest report, What about the kids? provides an excellent overview of what needs to be done to improve the experiences of babies and young children in Australia. The report provides evidence based recommendations that would make a difference immediately. These include:
- quality childcare with strong regulation
- workplace action to provide for family responsibilities
Childcare Rage
Submitted by Penny Sharpe on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 4:00pm.
Does anyone else think it is an outrage that the Federal government is going to spend $50 million making childcare centres install swipe cards and PIN systems?
While waiting lists grow and high quality community based centres are stretched to the limit, the Feds think that what is needed is a crackdown on fraud and more measuring of demand to try and identify the problem.
Everyone know what the problems are, lack of places, lack of resources, poor pay for staff, the move into making children a profit based industry and basically a lack of political will to provide what is actually an essential service for both families and the economy.
