There needs to be greater flexibility in childcare support.
School starts again today for millions of children, and for their parents that means the school run starts again.
Can I acknowledge those parents that volunteer in their school community. I can’t emphasise how important that is. We can’t complain about our children being infected by the woke mind virus if we don’t get involved with the school community through the P&C, tuck-shop and other activities.
It’s incredibly important to let the teachers and principal know if we don’t like what is going on at school. They get a lot of pressure out on them by the Marxists in the Education bureaucracy and activists in the Teachers Union.
Our children’s school is short of volunteers for the tuckshop already, a trend that is prevalent amongst the community. This has been driven by both parents being forced back to work for financial reasons due to financial mismanagement by the major parties.
The way Childcare support is structured is driving the problem.
Financial support is only given to parents who work between six to six. If anyone works outside those hours they miss out.
This discriminates against shift workers such as nurses, police, truck drivers and hospitality workers.
The impact of this is that Australians with children won’t do shift work and as a result we are importing workers to do shift work.
Why would someone be a nurse or hospitality worker when the cost of childcare is higher than what you are paid.
This is the problem when the majors keep lifting childcare subsidies. It lifts the cost of childcare for everyone, including shift workers who can’t use childcare centres.
That’s why People First is advocating to pay childcare support directly to parents so that shift workers don’t miss out and to help make it easier for a parent to stay at home so they can be involved in their children’s education and school community.
