1. Identify the areas of law that are relevant to the chosen media report, and explain how they are relevant to the matters outlined in the report.
Based on the article ‘Double Trouble’ (Pownall and Brown, 2014), the number of childcare centers in Western Australia that has breaking rules and unable to secure and monitored the children has increase rapidly as twice compare to last year.
Tort law
According to the article there are so many evidences regarding to negligence in supervision the children and lead to children missing. For example, Kids Biz Sport and recreation had letting two boys missing due to their negligence on looking after the children that breaches tort law.
Contract Law
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The law serves a number of different functions. It:
• Ensures reasonable predictability in daily life;
Providing a safe environment for the children to stay is undoubtedly the duty of childcare service centres. It is due to children are vulnerable and lack of hazard awareness. As an example, Teddy Bear Corner Child Care Centre is providing the children an unsafe cubby house. It is predictable that children will easily get hurt if they stay in an unsafe place. Therefore, Teddy Bear Corner Child Care Centre should take action to ensure no children will get hurts due to any predictable incident happen which is get injured in the cubby house.
• Encourages and discourages certain conduct;
The seven-year-old girl that left the Bluebird Afterschool and Vacation Care alone on her bicycle without noticed is the best example. Due to the employees of the care centre did not do not obligate their duties and let a little girl ride bicycle alone that lead to missing. Therefore, contract law will be best to encourage the childcare services centre to be strict and will not missing any children without …show more content…
For instance, if the childcare services centres knew that according to the law, providing an unsafe and unclean environment for the children will breach the law they will no longer providing the children unclean and unsafe environment. As for the parents, when their children are missing, they should know that by law, the childcare services centres should take responsible and find out the children and make compensation for the parents. But based on the media report, none of the found children were found by the childcare services centres. It proof that the childcare services centres refuse to take responsible on children’s missing, but if the parents of the missing children know the law, they will immediately take legal action to the childcare services