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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Appendix II, Supplementary Information on the
Situation in Australia, P193-194 |
"Child-care standards a scandal, say experts"
was the front-page headline to an article by Adele Horin in the Sydney
Morning Herald of 11 Feb 1995. Horin reported how a former lecturer in child
development "who used to tell her students that 'child care is fantastic'
became more skeptical after visiting dozens of centres in the course of her
work for Macquarie University", in Sydney, Australia. ...Her concerns included
under-staffing, cross-infection, a lack of books, a lack of everyday
conversation between infants and staff. With too few staff, language is just
a means of controlling children, and staff become overstretched leading to
burn-out and a high turnover rate.
...Horin was told that "it was almost impossible to get a prosecution
even for flagrant breaches of regulations". Complaints to the Department of
Community Services appeared to fall on deaf ears, and to close a centre was
seen as a political act which the Department would be anxious to avoid.
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Appendix II, Supplementary Information on the
Situation in Australia, P193-194 |
A government would be ill-advised to
attempt to emulate nationally a most costly regime of early child care,
which 80% of Swedes, who went further with this experiment than any other
country, still don't believe is the best way to rear children under three.
They believe, rather, that it is better for such
children to be with their mothers.
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