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SBS Australia
16-07-2025
- SBS Australia
National childcare worker registry in the works to improve industry regulation
National childcare worker registry in the works to improve industry regulation Published 16 July 2025, 9:25 am The Federal Government will fast-track the introduction of a national register for childcare workers threatening to withdraw funding to centres that don't meet acceptable standards. It comes as an accused Victorian paedophile charged with more than 70 sex offences is linked to another workplace.
ABC News
16-07-2025
- ABC News
Two childcare workers charged with assault of toddler at Western Sydney centre
Two Western Sydney childcare workers have been charged with allegedly assaulting a 17-month-old boy in their care. Child abuse detectives received a report of an alleged assault at the Start Strong Early Learning Centre in South Wentworthville on June 26. It is alleged two workers both handled the toddler roughly on two separate occasions on the same day, causing significant bruising and injuries. It is understood the director of the centre reported the alleged assault to authorities. "I reported it as soon as I became aware … all the correct steps have been taken," the director, who did not want to be named, told the ABC. If you have any information about a story, contact Victoria Pengilley. On Tuesday, detectives issued two women court attendance notices. A 42-year-old woman was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault and a 32-year-old woman was charged with common assault. Detectives issued the women noticed to attend Blacktown Local Court in August. The ABC understands both workers were terminated from the centre after the report was made.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Yahoo
17mo boy assaulted at childcare centre: cops
Two Sydney childcare workers have been charged with assaulting a 17-month-old boy in their care. Detectives with State Crime Command's Child Abuse Squad received reports of the 17-month-old boy being injured at an early learning centre in South Wentworthville on June 26. It is alleged the boy's injuries were caused by two childcare workers at the centre in separate incidents on the same day. A 42-year-old woman has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault. A 32-year-old woman was charged with common assault. Both women are due to appear in Blacktown Local Court on August 27. Parents and carers who are concerned a child or children may be at risk are being asked to contact the Child Protection Helpline on 132 111 or police.
News.com.au
16-07-2025
- News.com.au
Childcare workers charged with assaulting 17mo boy at Sydney childcare centre
Two Sydney childcare workers have been charged with assaulting a 17-month-old boy in their care. Detectives with State Crime Command's Child Abuse Squad received reports of the 17-month-old boy being injured at an early learning centre in South Wentworthville on June 26. It is alleged the boy's injuries were caused by two childcare workers at the centre in separate incidents on the same day. The two women are due to appear in court next month. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard A 42-year-old woman has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault. A 32-year-old woman was charged with common assault. Both women are due to appear in Blacktown Local Court on August 27. Parents and carers who are concerned a child or children may be at risk are being asked to contact the Child Protection Helpline on 132 111 or police.
National Post
15-07-2025
- Health
- National Post
Chris Selley: Let your kids outside, for God's sake, even if it's a bit smoky
Article content Article content It sure took me back. This sort of messaging only undermines the larger cause of public health. And speaking of which: 'I think for a child with underlying asthma, who must be outside, I would recommend wearing an N95 mask,' Green told the Star, somewhat paradoxically. 'But really, as much as possible, we should be keeping all children inside.' Article content We should be keeping all children inside as much as possible. In July. Even if they're not especially vulnerable to smoke. After screwing up their lives for three years during COVID-19. Article content No. No, we should not be doing that. Obviously. Article content Whether you think school closures were justified or not during the pandemic, at all or to the truly extraordinary extent Ontario took it, at this point we should be exploring every avenue to remedy the damage. And that does not mean trapping kids inside because the air quality's a bit crap. Article content That pandemic-era damage is huge. Of course it is. One of the most bizarre rhetorical phenomena of the pandemic was people arguing it wouldn't really do kids all that much harm not to go to school for a year or two. If that were true, why on earth do we spend so much money on K-12 education in the first place? Article content Article content The anecdotes from teachers and child-care workers about socially maladjusted and academically delayed kids keep piling up. So does the academic research: 'The pandemic has left its mark on their behaviour, mental health, social skills and their education,' BBC reported last month. 'Childhood experiences … tend to have an outsized effect on life trajectories because they can alter brain development, behaviour and overall wellbeing.' Article content Standardized test scores have crashed in Britain, where schools were closed for considerably shorter periods of time than in Ontario and Quebec. And we did basically bugger-all to compensate for it except graduate struggling kids anyway and send them out into the world and hope for the best. Article content Article content Meanwhile, perhaps not coincidentally, the verb 'swarming' has gained new prominence with respect to gangs of feral youths attacking innocent people — homeless people, pizza franchisees. We will never know if they reoffend, because we can't know their names. Article content Article content The most Toronto Star part of the whole affair: Alongside the article advising children to stay indoors if at all possible, the paper ran another article quoting an expert explaining that people aren't even safe from wildfire smoke inside. You should close all your windows, a University of Waterloo professor advised (because, obviously, everyone has air conditioning). You should even consider taping the windows shut, the Waterloo prof advised, because homes have 'leaks and cracks' through which wildfire-smoke particulates might invade your home. Article content That's absolutely bananas. How far should parents go? Pull their kids out of day camps or sleepover camps? Cancel all their kids' summer recreational activities, hopefully including some unstructured capering around in their neighbourhoods? I don't think parents are that dumb or hysterical. The media they consume shouldn't be either. Article content
