Federal, state and territory education ministers have agreed to a $21 million trial of CCTV at 300 small and medium childcare operators as part of a $189 million reform package. Minister Jason Clare said compliance actions against 37 early childhood centres have been issued. Video via AAP.
00:00About $130 million of extra state and territory funding here as well.
00:05This is a team effort.
00:07Australia expects all of us to work together.
00:10They're not interested in excuses.
00:12They expect Labor and Liberal, State, Territory, Federal, all the work together.
00:17The private sector, the for-profits, the not-for-profits.
00:20They don't give a damn about the difference or the breakdown or who's responsible for what.
00:24They just want their kids to be safe.
00:25Over the course of the last 48 hours, we've published the names of 37 centres that have been sent notices indicating that unless they meet those standards, they're just having their funding cut off.
00:39Without their funding, they can't operate.
00:41I think most parents would accept the argument that if taxpayers' money is going to be invested to operate an early education and care centre, then we expect them to meet those standards and keep our kids safe.
00:53That's why in Victoria, we were also earlier announced this week that we would also reform our working with children's check, that we would reform our reportable conduct scheme, and we would reform our child safe standards, and we would bring them all together in our social services regulation so that we would have an independent early education regulator, and we would have a social services regulator that brings together all those areas in which people work with children and with other vulnerable people and where there is their policies.
01:20One of the most important things, and our reviewers, Jay Weatherill and Pam White told us this, is that at the core of all decisions when it comes to child safety, the paramount interests of the child must come first.
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