Association critical of childcare regs
PA Wellington. The Childcare Association is disappointed that new childcare regulations do not require improved staff-child ratios and at least 50 per cent appropriately trained staff in childcare centres. The regulations came into effect on Monday, replacing regulations made in 1960. The association’s president, Mrs Cathy Lythe, said they did not contain the two main recommendations made by the association: That at least half the staff of a childcare centre should be appropriately trained, and that there should be
improved staff-child ratios. “These two requirements are essential for the promotion of quality childcare,” she said. However, the association believed that a funding proposal for childcare centres would soon be released, and it had been assured that once tins was implemented, the Minister of Social Welfare. Mrs Hercus, would reconsider the regulations. Mrs Lythe said the association accepted that staffing improvements could not be implemented without proper funding, but would continue pressing for them.
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