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2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 200816 Feb 2012 - Opposition Must Stop Getting Their Facts Wrong on Child Care
THE HON KATE ELLIS MP
Minister for Employment Participation
Minister for Early Childhood and Child Care
MEDIA RELEASE
16 February 2012
Opposition must stop getting their facts wrong on child care
The Opposition's false and misleading claims on child care were exposed yet again in a Senate Estimates hearing today.
In recent days the Opposition have unnecessarily alarmed parents across the country by claiming that families are being charged $40 000 rather than $40 because of technical issues with the Child Care Management System.
This is entirely untrue and the record had been set straight by departmental officers in Senate Estimates today.
At the Senate Estimates hearing it was confirmed that this experience was confined to a single child care service that has problems with its own internal data processes and in fact had nothing to do with the Government's system.
The Department are working with that service and the service's software provider to assist them in rectifying this issue.
The Opposition's suggestion that the Department could somehow access parents' bank accounts and debit large sums of money is completely absurd.
This forms part of a pattern of behaviour where the Opposition continually talk down the child care sector and talk up the cost of child care.
Either they are deliberately spreading misinformation and alarming families or they are simply sloppy and don't know what they're talking about.
They may prefer negativity but the truth is that this Government is providing more funding for quality early childhood education and care than ever before in our history.