Flowers, chocolates, promises: now too late for early childhood educators

Abstract

<p>The newest Productivity Commission report: A path to universal early childhood education and care glosses over or ignores many fundamental problems within the early childhood education sector.</p> <p>Scarcely mentioned, or tactfully ignored, are the:</p> <p>* systemic issues relating to educator burnout,</p> <p>* poor wellbeing and morale of educators,</p> <p>* increasing burden of quality assurance,</p> <p>* emotional cost of caring, and the * increasingly complex needs of families.</p>