Samantha is a Certificate III level educator and has been working at Beetles child care centre for the past three months. She works in the kindy room with Amy, the room leader. Samantha was very excited about getting this job and looking forward to learning a lot from Amy, who is a very experienced educator.

Although things started out well, over the past few weeks Samantha has found it more and more difficult to work with Amy.She is concerned about the way Amy is interacting with the children, often in an abrupt and hostile way.The children look scared when Amy approaches them. She seems to be particularly hard on one young boy, Josh. Two days ago Samantha saw Amy holding Josh on his shoulders, shaking him quite violently and calling him 'stupid'.

Please record your answers to the following questions

1. Explain how Amy is breaching her legal requirements.
2. List one regulation that Amy has breached, including the number and title of the regulation.
3. List one article in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that Amy has breached. Write the number and the article.
4. Who should Samantha discuss her concerns with?
5. What should Samantha say during this discussion?
6. What legal responsibility does the co-coordinator have in responding to Samantha's concerns?
7. What documents will guide the co-coordinator as she responds to Samantha's concerns?