as much as I would like to say that the Gillard party went too far I have to say that this actual fact is false.... it is up to the centers to make that decision but from what I understand they have made it easier to do so.
The recommendations were criticised by opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton who told Macquarie Radio earlier on Wednesday the government was running a nanny state.
"It's really beyond the pale and I think mum and dad know how to bring up kids," he said.
But Ms Plibersek said the recommendations were almost identical to those released in 2005 under then health minister Tony Abbott.
"Peter Dutton has basically gone out and said that Tony Abbott is a nanny state enforcer and that parents don't know what they're doing and that Tony Abbott as health minister was gone mad," she said.
The guidelines, titled Staying Healthy, also stress that children should wash their hands with alcohol sanitiser before and after playing in the sandpit.
BUT... having had gastro the past 3 days I think it is a good idea... wash hands more often and have cup cakes instead...
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No 'cake police' in childcare centres
From:AAP February 06, 2013 4:20PM
THERE'S no danger of cake police shutting down childcare centres, Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says.
The ministerial reassurance came after National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines released on Tuesday advised against blowing out candles on birthday cakes being shared at childcare centres.
Ms Plibersek says centres that don't comply won't be punished but it makes sense for children not to spread germs knowingly.
"There's a degree of common sense required," Ms Plibersek told reporters in Canberra.
"We're not going to have the cupcake police out, but childcare centres know that whatever they can do to reduce infections in childcare centres is going to be good for the kids, good for the families they support and good for childcare workers."
The NHMRC document suggests preventing the spread of germs by putting a candle on a separate cupcake for the birthday child to blow out rather than on a shared cake.
read more;
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/no-rules-over-child-care-cakes-ellis/story-fn3dxiwe-1226571379322
I'm pretty sure that they used individual cup cakes when my boys went to child care..I think there might be a few parents who send their children to child care so that they can go to work aren't happy when they pick up bugs that can go around child care centres. If some things can be avoided ...why not ?
