Focus on children’s safety, introduce land reforms, close loopholes, increase regulator resourcing and actually impose fines for breaches: these are the five initial calls for reform that an ACT MLA wants for the early childhood education sector.
Independent Kurrajong MLA Thomas Emerson’s actions led to the release of more than 2000 pages of documents relating to incidents in Canberra’s daycares and centres.
Now he’s outlined five ways that he believes the ACT Government can boost the sector and increase child safety.
“These reforms are uncontroversial, they’re things we should be doing already,” Mr Emerson said.
“The government has been privy to the issues exposed in this document release, and has chosen to leave those issues unresolved.
“It’s time to take the steps necessary to actually put children first — without exception.”
Read the article here: https://region.com.au/emersons-plan-to-address-unresolved-early-education-issues-impacting-childrens-safety/938818/