 No-one knew - until they read it in the Manly Daily! Manly's 38 year old Family Day Care Service is to be transferred to Warringah. Angry parents and uninformed Councillors are working together to try to over-rule the decision by General Manager Henry Wong, but is it too late?
Although Clr Cathy Griffin called for a strategic plan to be prepared on the future needs of child-care in Manly, the report won't be ready until after the deadline for the transfer of services. The Family Day Care service is currently co-ordinated by Manly Council and links parents and in-home carers together. Parents are concerned that if the service is absorbed into Warringah that they will lose their local access with Warringah residents taking advantage of places in Manly, closer to the ferry commute. Manly Council no longer offers before and after school care or vacation care and will soon stop immunisation services and now Family Day Care. Where has our sense of community gone?
7 Comments
John D Wilson
18/7/2013 12:55:35 pm
This smells putrid or is there more to this?
Cassahn Grundy
18/7/2013 02:25:08 pm
What about the children and the families, this sucks :(
kate casswell
19/7/2013 12:40:52 am
It comes as a shock that a council that is looking after our community for us,by people we elected!!! can cancel important community services like vacation care. What are local parents to do? Why were we not informed of this big decision?
carolyn Douglas
22/7/2013 05:39:29 am
After 20 Years Working for manly family daycare a Notification Letter on this decision would have been a more Business like
Rhett Douglas
22/7/2013 07:32:28 am
Where are our Manly Children going to go in 2014 when the Children ratio turns to 1 to 4 ?
It's hard not to be skeptical about this decision. it really seems that the Manly Council General Manager is making loads of decisions for purely (misjudged) monetary reasons and not in the interest of the community. Several councillors were not even informed of the decision, let alone consulted. Whatever happened to the principles of democracy and representation? Plus the carers themselves received phone calls rather than being informed by writing. I wonder if this breached the terms of their contract?
sam wilkins
5/8/2013 07:19:05 am
things like this make me wonder. how is this helping the manly community? I am a member of manly youth council and the same thing has happen to youth services with it consisting currently of a skeleton staff that have been moved from the purpose built youth centre to an office at manly library. it makes me wonder about the motives of the council and henry wong. do they want to demolish the youth centre so they can see the prime land? we can only wait with dread to find out. Leave a Reply. |
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