As a childcare worker, the subsidies are killing us. We’re thrown to the rocks as the parents aren’t affected and the businesses just raise prices over the next 2-3 years to gain extra profit, so that the next government can raise the CCS and they can raise their fees again.
Meanwhile our wages are fucked and not getting better, and the government is more concerned about throwing more money at private companies meaning there’s a huge shortage of staff and where there is staff the quality is pathetic because there’s no knowledge built up from experience because 99% leave the industry by year 2.
The only workable solution is to make early childhood public like we do with primary and tertiary.