Victoria’s urgent childcare review recommendations unveiled: major reforms but no ‘silver bullet’ to stop ‘dangerous individuals’ | Childcare Australia

Children’s checks, a new database and regulator, unaware visits to children’s care centers, and a great reforms to rethink the entire early childhood education system have been proposed as part of Victoria’s emergency study in the child care sector.

The former Southern Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and Senior Bureaucrat Pam White was fully published by the government government on Wednesday.

In July, child care worker Joshua Dale Brown was accused of sexual harassment of eight and two -year -old children after five months and was ordered by the Victoria government.

The general examination in nature was warned that there was no “silver bullets için to prevent“ dangerous individuals ”from working in the sector, while the current system required a“ basic reset ”to increase child safety.

He said that the responsibilities for the Early Childhood Education System (Ecec) are currently divided among the federal and state regional governments, and in Victoria, he participated in his arrangements and caused “gaps”.

“The review heard about ‘bread crumbs’, which could be missed by not being able to bring the information together,” he said.

The Victoria government made 22 suggestions, committing to accept them all. Many of the suggestions are also directed to the federal government.

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The report has found that the Ecec sector has undergone “rapid growth” in the last decade. In Victoria, the number of long daily care services has increased from 1,280 to 2,049% since 2015. 94% of 726 new services are operated by non -profit providers.

However, he says there is no “consistent plan to manage this growth.

“Rather, it was left to respond to financial incentives that encourage market providers and to receive high wages, but they do not invest in quality, security or stable, talented and well -supported labor force.”

This led to significant labor difficulties such as famine, daily and workers’ use and high turnover rates.

The study proposes that Ecec, including the current financing model, to address these issues and to form a “time -limited” early childhood reform commission.

Commonwealth is also called to establish a national early childhood worker registration, including all early childhood education and care personnel in Australia, and to change the law to give state regulators to the power of deregist individuals.

Although the Albanian government was temporarily established on its own due to Victoria’s temporal of the federal reform of the federal reform, a national registry.

Work with children’s checks

In Victoria, the study suggests that the cleansing of an individual is “handhanding” of the plan (WWCC) to allow the suspension or rejection of an individual’s permission to be suspended or rejected, such as özgür behaviors related to behaviors related to child -related behaviors ”or intelligence from the police” or the intelligence coming from the police.

He said that the current system was “solid ve and was based only on a penalty background or proven findings to cancel a WWCC, and that he was“ kidnapped ”such as“ pattern of behavior or repeating events ”.

If new claims are made, individuals should also be re -evaluated.

Anyone applying for WWCC must complete the online Children’s Security Training and Test with the identification of Australia as the first.

The examination also proposed urgent legal changes in the reportable behavior plan – the authority to share unfounded allegations with other relevant regulators and agencies, not to share proven findings, and to eliminate the authority to recognize findings or investigations in other states and regions.

He said that the reportable behavior plan managed by the Children and Youth Commission and the WWCC screening authority in the Government Services Department should be purchased to a single organization.

This asset should also manage a new database to “bring child security risk information together in one place”.

“The safe use of artificial intelligence should be looked at to allow the rapid scanning of new information and patterns related to defined behavior,” he said.

He described this as “one of the most critical changes that should be” in order to enable “bread crumbs” to üle to be seen and moved ”.

An independent regulator

The investigation also proposes to establish an independent Ecec regulator who is currently released from the Ministry of Education in order to ın avoid conflicts of interest ”.

He said that this regulator should apply the “the most meticulous supervision regime in the country ve and that unaware visits should be“ at least once per 12 months ”. The investigation has now found that these controls took place every two years.

It also enabled the appropriate finance of this regulator because it stopped contributing to financing in 2018.

Improve the central environment

The examination also made various suggestions to increase security at the central level.

He called for a federal investigation for personnel regulations, including financing to help two adults with children to take into account the ‘four -eye’ rule ”and centers to create“ net view lines ”.

Centers should ensure that all new personnel, daily and labor rental personnel go through background controls and contact with their previous two employers, even if they are not listed in the referees.

In addition, he asked for compulsory child safety training and time for the federal government to finance the personnel to get more training and stamped “quality registered training organizations”.

However, he said that it was difficult to reach an agreement on the use of CCTV in centers, stating the concerns about data safety and access, children’s confidentiality and activity. The authors said “should be investment in personnel and labor capabilities, but proposed a 12 -month hearing and focused on use as a“ regulatory and research tool ”.