If the pandemic taught us anything, essential workers need our thanks, but apparently not a proper, livable wage

I’ve been saying this for YEARS! Please pay attention and stay home if there is any way possible. * daycares that are overcrowded and understaffed are very dangerous!😢 I stayed home , and got my home licensed for a daycare. I was under the amount of children that I was allowed to have. They ( licensing board was EXTREMELY strict about safety protocols and pop in visitations from them). Poor baby 😢

Lack of funding, increased privatization, sometimes poor staff to child ratios, poor sector training are the reasons

yet it's incredibly expensive - GREAT

My son also got injured about 5 years ago at a childcare center here in Melbourne. However, soon after the childcare was bought by another business and still continues operation under new management. Wondering if Shine Lawyers here in Melbourne would be interested in looking into my case?

YES I agree one hundred per cent : Mother’s SHOULD be paid to be able to bring up their kids at home , even if they are married. That way, babies and young children are being cared for without having to be separated from their Mothers.

No child care center is a match for the care of a parent or close family member. I once worked in child care and witnessed and reported on cases of abuse by staff across a few centers. Couldnt work in a center any longer. What i witnessed over many years was a decline in the standards when recruiting new staff. If you have a choice do not use a day care.

I have applied for childcare work in childcare centres in Brisbane and I have got no response from them. I have 9 years experience in family day care and I was going to get my certificate. So I think in my opinion, the centres are not interested in employing more educators.

My son returned from daycare last month with a pretty bad injury to his ear. He has a trip and hit an outside corner. We were devastated and quite angry

It's moments like this am glad being a stay at home mom

I live across the road from a daycare, that alone made me never want to take my child to daycare. What you see when you drop them off and pick them up isn't how it is for the entire day. One kid was on top of another kid, kicking him again and again in the head. The kid on the ground was yelling "Stop" and the two outside educators were having a conversation, not even looking in the direction of the child yelling and needing help. I had my new born baby twins so by the time I was able to come over to let the educators know, it had already stopped and they didn't believe what I had witnessed until they saw the footage. Even after seeing it, they tried to convince me it was normal childhood behaviour and children 'fight' all the time so I highly doubt any incident reports were filled that day.

Welcome to modern society where two incomes are needed to buy a house,but it's all part of the plan and that's to have compliant workers trying to hang onto there houses it's not going to end well

At what age you should send your kids to day care?

Blessed to have a good child care centre for my bub. However I'm just annoyed by other parents that allow their children to bite, kick and scratch other kids. Makes me wonder what its like in these children's home, when they get away with such poor behaviour... 🤔

This so sad 😭

Maybe if Educators were not expected to prioritise paper work, observations, learning stories etc over care this wouldn’t happen. They want high quality care, but just push more and more work on their shoulders and unrealistic time lines to have it done.

My child was in care 14 years ago. My wife had post natal depression and was told by her doctor to have a break and put my son in a child care centre for rest . The centre was down the road. My wife a after 2 hours the first day received a call 📞 to pick him up because he was crying. The second day same thing. One lady who worked there told us who we knew from church said get your son out of here it's bad news. When My wife arrived to pick him up 4 months old baby he was left by hom self swinging in a chair with staff taking in the corner. Later our friend told us they had a policy to feed the black Afician children last . The company was always changing there name (Bad sign) also police were always in attendance as we were driving past. We didn't have much luck with family day care either unfortunately. I don't think the cares should be called educatiors when in kindler the teachers are limited to what they can teach it's a dumbing down of children' set by government. Norway had the highest standards of education in the world children start school at 7 years .

Many family homes are even more unsafe. Those children are doomed. Anyone involved with children -including parents - should at the very least have parenting skills taught to them.

The real question to ask is only by comparing hours under mothers care and incidences of injury VS hours in childcare and incidences of comparable injuries. A mother leaving their 4 year old with their baby and some violence occuring is not criminal negligence, is it? Why the double standard? Surely this is a live and learn circumstance, as it would be for a parent? Regardless of my counter point, we do need more and better childcare. Childcare should be available and at least as safe as under a mother's care. If the regulation goes beyond this we are making childcare exclusive and only for the well-off, who have probably absurd standards of safety for their children, i.e. far safer than in an average home.

Most childcares were excellent before they become businesses(where I come from anyway)

Oh gosh, which centre. We are looking for a daycare for our grandchild. We just want to know they will be safe.

I live right next door to Child care centre.! Ask me what I hear and see.!

Why such a young baby in childcare in the first place - way too young - should be with a parent?

No no no 😢our children getting hurt in the care of others...this needs attention asap if they hurt my children i will hurt them ..

Best practice in early childhood care is to be at home with mum. Mothers at home should be paid for their 24/7 jobs - the most important job in the world is raising cared for and loved children - as only a mother can.

There was no such thing as child care in the 70s when my daughter was born…she was my responsibility no on else’s….I did not go back to work till 1977…school age…then I relied on my mother and another family member….there were no government hand out or child care assistance…a bit of child endowment and that was it….you had to do the best you could by economising making do and mend…kids today are worth a lot of money to parents with all the money, assistance and hand outs they get. ….there where no credit cards either to put whatever you fancied on that you don’t really need……they didn’t exist till 1974….You have the kids they are your responsibility…..you are the only ones who should discipline them and teaching is ground work that should start at home…not rely on others to do the job of a parent that you should be doing yourself.

Hmm. Maybe social engineering has consequences.

WHY????? CHILDREN ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD ❤ Why weren't they closed down.....

Maybe if you don't leave your young baby in childcare centre at such a young age, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing for God's sake. Be a mother. Mother your baby.

Theres some people that shouldn't have children