Whistleblowers call out ‘disgusting’ food served in childcare centres

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Insiders say parents are being lied to about the quality of food served at for- profit childcare centres with some spending as little as 33 cents per meal. The revelation is part of this week's four corners investigation into the childcare sector.

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00:00The problem is that all services will have a menu available of what the children to be

00:06served each day, but this menu is not always what children are getting. So it could be

00:13incorrect for reasons out of the control of the centre, but in some centres it will say

00:19something like a selection of gourmet sandwiches, but what's actually being given is jam and

00:24a Vegemite on white bread. Although we have some really good examples of centres who are

00:29private centres who are doing an incredibly good job with food, so it can be done and

00:35it can be done in centres that want to make a profit. It's not impossible. So children

00:39actually need to be exposed to a wide variety of foods to actually develop those food preferences

00:44and early education and care is the perfect place for that to happen. Like I said, there

00:50are lots of services who are doing this extremely well. If you do have concerns, then yes, talk

00:56to your service.

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