House Appropriations and Finance Committee advances SB241 to codify child-care assistance, lowers trust-fund drawdown The committee voted 10–7 to give a do-pass recommendation to the Senate Finance Committee substitute for Senate Bill 241, which codifies New Mexico's child care assistance program, adds reporting and wage-lattice provisions, and reduces the authorized transfer from the early childhood trust fund from $1 billion to $700 million.

New Mexico is taking a significant step to stabilize child care with a new bill that codifies assistance programs while reducing fund transfers and enhancing accountability.

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To be blunt, children's safety *is* secondary to profit in for-profit centres.

Despite the gravity of the situation, G8 Education (ASX:GEM) - the owner of the Creative Gardens, Point Cook child care centre - hasn't even bothered to issue an ASX announcement.

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Responsibility for systemic failures ultimately rests with those who profit from the system.

And yet few, if any, of yesterday's news reports on the Creative Gardens Point Cook child care centre identified G8 Education (ASX:GEM) as the owner.

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