Childcare centre left toddler trapped in hot bus

Childcare staff left a four-year-old girl trapped in a hot bus until she was covered in sweat, her skin turned red, and she wet herself.

Stripy Zebras Junior Education Centre was fined $16,000 by the State Administrative Tribunal for forgetting the toddler for half an hour in 30C temperatures on May 10. 

The little girl, strapped to a booster seat, was only rescued when another parents heard banging sounds and saw her hands on the window.

Staff at Stripy Zebras Junior Education Centre (pictured) left a four-year-old girl trapped in a hot bus until she was covered in sweat, her skin turned red, and she urinated on herself

The parents raced on to the bus about 3.10pm and found the toddler crying and covered in sweat with her skin red, and saw she had urinated on herself.

Her mother arrived at 4pm to pick her up and took her to Karratha, WA, hospital.

Two workers were sacked over the incident and Stripy Zebras drew up better procedures for checking no children were left on the bus.

Other childcare centres fined for breaching their duties of care included Fremantle Early Learning Centre in Beaconsfield when a child almost died.

The three-year-old boy was nearly strangled to death when he got tangled in a hammock after putting his head through its ropes on June 14.

The little girl, strapped to a booster seat, was only rescued when another parents heard banging sounds and saw her hands on the window

The little girl, strapped to a booster seat, was only rescued when another parents heard banging sounds and saw her hands on the window

He was left dangling there with his feet off the ground for about five minutes, and had to be rushed to hospital for three days where he was intubated.

The two hammocks were removed and the centre was ordered to pay $46,000 in fines and legal costs.

A nurse in Busselton, south of Perth, was fined $7,000 when a one-year-old boy burned himself so badly with a cup of hot tea he needed skin grafts.

The Nature Alliance Family Day Care Services nurse got a bigger fine because she didn’t have parental permission to take the child on the excursion.



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