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2021
Goodstart Early Learning Fined After Child's Death on Bus
Fine or penalty
In 2021, a Queensland court fined Goodstart Early Learning $71,000 after a three-year-old boy died following being left in a minibus for more than six hours. Education Queensland had accused the provider of failing to provide adequate supervision and protection from harm, and of failing to keep accurate attendance records. The court imposed the fine in response to these accusations. The event concerned the death of the child on the bus and the regulatory findings against the early learning provider.
Source excerpt
Australia’s largest childcare provider has been fined $71,000 by a Queensland court after the death of a three-year-old boy who was left in a minibus for more than six hours last year.
Goodstart Early Learning was fined on Wednesday in the Cairns Magistrates Court after Education Queensland accused it of failing to provide children with adequate supervision and protection from harm, and failing to keep accurate attendance records.
The company pleaded guilty in Cairns Magistrates Court on Wednesday over the death of Maliq "Meeky" Nicholas Floyd Namok-Malamoo, 3, in February last year.