Not as easy as ABC…
November 6th, 2008
I know Community Childcare advocates will be cheering for joy and be using the failure of ABC Learning Centres as an indication of the failure of private childcare services.
It isn’t of course. It is a demonstration of the impact of rapid business growth, using risky accounting measures and at the end of the day the real impact of this was on staff who did their best under conditions that were less than optimal. The demise of ABC hopefully instead of cementing the division can help create a new partnership betwene the private and non-profit operators of childcare in Australia. Both service models have a lot to offer and profit, in so many areas of our life, does not mean poor quality.
Once the initial point scoring is over. I hope those at the head of industry bodies can begin to talk about how they will work to provide quality care for all Australian children. Our kids don’t benefit from dogma and prescriptive ideology.
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