00:02Alison Scholar is cooking up activities to keep her son busy at home
00:09after the sudden closure of their childcare centre.
00:13We were only given a week's notice and then we've got to try and juggle things.
00:20Edge Early Learning in Charnwood was empty on day one of a three-month suspension today issued over repeat supervision
00:28breaches.
00:28Not knowing where children are in the service, so not really understanding where children are,
00:34children going missing, staff unable to actually find children.
00:39But in a letter to families Edge went one step further, criticising the suspension as not proportionate
00:46and revealing it would shut the service for good because trying to re-establish the centre was not a viable
00:52option.
00:53We are on the downhill run, looking forward to graduation in November.
00:57They get their little graduation caps on, we're not going to get that now.
01:00Edge is backed by private equity and runs nearly 70 centres across the country,
01:06but last week entered voluntary administration.
01:08Despite promising families nothing would change, two Canberra services are now shut
01:14after Edge in Higgins closed in July over immediate safety risks.
01:18I think it's important that Canberra families understand that there is a regulator
01:24who does take the quality and safety of children in these services very seriously.
01:32Something that's supposed to educate kids shouldn't be a profit making function.
01:35A bitter taste for families now left in the lurch.
