Government of Western Australia | G8 Education Limited has been penalised for inadequate supervision and failure to protect a child from a hazard likely to cause injury.
The approved provider, which operates the service Great Beginnings Cloverdale, was ordered to pay a total penalty of $65,000 for contravening sections 165(1) and 167(1) of the Education and Care Services National Law (WA) Act 2012 for the offences of inadequate supervision of a child and failing to ensure that every reasonable precaution was taken to protect children from harm and from any hazard likely to cause injury.
A Department of Communities (Communities) investigation found that two children, aged one year seven months and two years four months old, exited the toddler room as an educator held the door open to speak to a parent. One child proceeded to wander into the car park, while the other remained in the area.
Fortunately, a parent noticed the child was alone in the car park and returned the child to the toddlers’ room. It was at this point that the educators realised that the two children had exited the service.
G8 Education Limited was also ordered to pay $2,000 towards the Department of Communities’ legal costs.
