‘Deep frustration’: Pollies lashed for prioritising votes over kids
The National Children’s Commissioner has slammed political leaders for nearly a decade of inaction on child safety, calling for a more ambitious response to the childcare crisis.
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Should kids be forced to make besties with their bullies?
Parents and experts are divided over whether healing should replace punishment when combating bullying in schools. Is restorative justice useful or just “kumbaya therapy?”
Revealed: Childcare centres slapped with sanctions
Two childcare centres each week are facing sanctions for allowing children to be injured or escape. Search your centre here.
Full list of low-performing childcare centres at risk of losing funding
Services where hefty fines have been issued after children were force fed, subjected to unreasonable discipline or allowed to escape onto busy roads will come under renewed scrutiny under a new federal law.
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