- Childcare workers are spending one third of their time filling out paperwork
- Under new regulations childcare staff will write ‘mind maps’ for child in care
- New rules aims to set a high benchmark for children’s education in Australia
- Childcare workers are to follow rules from new framework from October 1
Childcare workers are wasting a third of their time filling out paperwork instead of minding the children.
Staff at childcare centres have been spending hours writing ‘reflective journals’ and ‘mind maps’ for each child, according to Daily Telegraph.
The paperwork is reportedly to comply with a 632 page long ‘national quality framework’ by The Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority which aims to set a high benchmark for children’s education.
Childcare workers are wasting a third of their time filling out paperwork instead of minding the children (stock image)
Staff at childcare centres have been spending hours writing ‘reflective journals’ and ‘mind maps’ for each child under new regulation (stock image)
The new regulations will be enforced from October 1 which will mean childcare staff will have to ‘assess or evaluate’ the development of all the children, and babies, in care.
Childcare staff will have to explain how ‘each child’s agency is promoted, enabling them to make choices and decisions that influence events and their world’.
Monitoring how toddlers develop verbally will also have to be documented by childcare staff.
The new changes will also mean a childcare worker can overrule parents when it comes to children’s sleep as a way to lower the number of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Parents who want to staff to swaddle their babies over three-months-old will be overruled unless they have doctor’s endorsement.
The new rules will be enforced across Australia, except in Western Australia where the rules will be enforced next year.
The new regulations will be enforced from October 1 which will mean childcare staff will have to ‘assess or evaluate’ the development of all the children, and babies, in care (stock image)