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Mar 13, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Zillman |Xanthe Kleinig
Every few months, Emma Douglas would have to scour Broome's Facebook groups for a new babysitter. The babysitter wasn't for her school-age children, but for her then-toddler Lulu, for whom she couldn't access a childcare place. "[I'd] be posting on the Broome babysitting Facebook pages, begging, begging for a babysitter that could fit in with the days that I needed," she told 7.30.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Stephanie Zillman
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Zillman
In short: Educator-to-child ratios are calculated across a whole childcare service, not by individual rooms, and educators must be working directly with children in order to be counted. A childcare centre which uses the "under the roof" ratio may be counting staff that don't directly work with children, meaning legal ratios aren't being met. What's next?
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Stephanie Zillman |Xanthe Kleinig
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Zillman |Xanthe Kleinig
Within weeks of being informed that nine-month-old baby Ada Coen had a severe egg and dairy allergy, an educator at her childcare centre in Melbourne fed her yoghurt. In August 2022 after undergoing specialist testing, Ashlea Coen emailed her daughter's childcare provider, a Guardian early education centre in Melbourne, an allergy action plan. Ashlea says she also handed in a hard copy of the plan to the front desk, and personally spoke to two educators about Ada's allergies.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Stephanie Zillman
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Zillman
On an ordinary Monday night in late October, 30-year-old Elliott Shaw was walking his dinner plate to the couch when he tripped on his daughter's toy and fell through the window next to it. Warning: This story contains graphic content. "As soon as I looked down and saw the size of the wound and the blood starting to spurt, I knew the severity of it," Mr Shaw said. He'd severed two arteries, 11 tendons and two nerves.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Zillman |Emily Smith
Gus Kuster was in his cell at Brisbane's immigration detention centre three weeks ago, on November 7, when he was called into the guard's office. "I got told Saturday afternoon that they wanted to see me. And then they just told me I was going home," says Mr Kuster.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Stephanie Zillman
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Stephanie Zillman
Jack Swindells was just seven months old, left unsupervised and lying on a mat when he was beaten by a four-year-old child at a Brisbane childcare centre in August 2018. It was Jack's second time attending the centre. "I was at work and took the call from the daycare – they told me that Jack had been scratched on his head, and it was normal policy for them to call when anything [like that] happens. So I just said, 'OK, no problem'," said his mother, Angela Swindells.
