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The Productivity Commission wants all Australian kids to get 3 days a week of childcare – but it won’t be until 2036.

The Productivity Commission wants all Australian kids to get 3 days a week of childcare – but it won’t be until 2036

https://theconversation.com/the-productivity-commission-wants-all-australian-kids-to-get-3-days-a-week-of-childcare-but-it-wont-be-until-2036-239293

A new report also recommends free early education and care for families earning under $80,000 from 2026.

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Marsupial

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Scrap the subsidies entirely. They’re harmful and fucking over the industry.

Stop subsiding private businesses who rate hike each year yet pass none of it into the resources, building, children, or educators.

And finally pay educators better, you want high quality education? You’re not getting it when your educators rarely stay more than a year into the industry and lack all deep long term institutional knowledge.

Not to mention we’re deeply understaffed as is, and you want to put more children in when we cannot meet the demand already existing, and no a free fucking tafe course is not getting educators into the industry.

This is policy made by people who don’t step foot in the class and have zero idea of the industry.

NaevaTheRat

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You seem familiar with this looking at the instance you run.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on why these subsidies are harmful. What do you think is a better approach for pre-school aged childcare? Or do you not want it?

The state steralised me so I've no personal stake, by sister who's quite wealthy and very uh unradical feminist (more women as bank ceos type) seems very keen on this stuff for gender equality reasons given childcare often falls to mothers. Keen to hear the other side if you don't mind writing up your thoughts?