Australia - GC man charged with 1,623 child abuse offences against 91 children in child care facilities in BNE, SYD & overseas, 2007-2022

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1862766617475555461

 

[modesty blaise]

Enraging! Multiple years of a grown man beeping and bopping in childcare centers all over Australia should have raised a red flag....or in this case their blue flag.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

I never trust men working in any capacity with children. I know it is biased (and that women can also be vile humans towards children) but I never have felt any different and I never will.

I agree, and time has proven how right you are. There should be tight security that deters these disgusting things even applying and the gullible women who cover for them. It’s very distressing, I don’t have grand children and maybe never will, but I do care about these poor babies.
The people who call it hysteria are the biggest part of the problem if not, THE problem!

 

[Eloise]

the thing is, even if a bad person slips through the cracks of hiring (even with improved WWCC databases etc), if the things educators are asking for would be implemented - rather than the things politicians implement and then pat themselves on the back for and say job done - it wouldn't matter, because they'd never get a chance to offend. As the most recent report showed, they're targeting childcare centres deliberately because of how loosy goosy everything is. Very little supervision, easy access to a job even without training, etc.

Educators want better ratios, no educator ever being left alone with children (facilitated by what's called 'under the roof ratios' meaning that so long as the centre is in ratio, it won't matter if for a while in one room one educator is left with say, 40 children. It's dangerous and the very opposite of 'quality' but technically legal), better pay, better education standards (why can you work straight off the street just with an 'enrolment' in a certificate 3 course, often being delivered by shoddy private providers that teach nothing), and we want managers to actually listen to us when we report dodgy staff members. We want regulators to listen to us if we report a bad manager. We want them to come and do actual spot checks at the time of day we tell them are when everything is chaos.

If politicians would listen to the people who actually do the job, the bad stuff wouldn't happen, or only in extremely rare cases. Most centres, in my experience, already banned educators using personal phones and it was a strawman argument; them being able to be used nefariously was due to lax supervision, terrible management, and no oversight. New laws about phones don't change those things.
CCTV comes with its own issues (however most educators support it because there's been many cases of parents accusing educators of doing things they haven't done, sometimes through misunderstandings of things their child was told them and sometimes because they're just awful people themselves, and CCTV has instead showed that the educator has done nothing wrong)