Stepping Stone Tea Tree Gully Childcare & Early Development Centre

If minus was an option!! My son developed social anxiety due to this center!! As this was his first childcare and I... If minus was an option!! My son developed social anxiety due to this center!! As this was his first childcare and I never had any issues with my daughter's center (Northlakes Munno Para, amazing!) I didn't think much of him clinging to me to not drop him here. He was there almost a year and all I ever saw was a dark room and children crying. I now look back at it as a prison. Shocking treatment of children by one or two staff occurred. One placed a child down extremely rough and stated "this child will be the death of me" in front of me like I was invisible, I was convinced it must be her child, as no way would she be doing that to someone else's child. It was not her child; I saw her parent collect her about a week later!! I was horrified, and already started to look for another center. Another "educator" could not tell me why my son has a gigantic rash on his face and that she though his face was "just like that" after my son spending almost a year there. The same woman who put the child down rough told me when I saw my son locked outside by himself, with no educator and both the screen sliding door, and glass sliding door closed, that he has the "sh*ts with me because I changed his bum" he was only 1.5 years old!! I was so shocked about what I walked into and what she said for me I was lost for words. Considering my job at the time was also working with children, in huge numbers, and I wouldn't in my wildest dreams do anything remotely close! I saw her recently leaving work for the day at the center as I drove past, so it seems my complaint did nothing and they think it's fine to employ people like this. Her name is Sarah, for anyone wondering! Office staff, and staff in other rooms, from what I could see where lovely, children always sick and not much cleaning done from what I could see. Read more