without Alice and Jian'. The Director acknowledge reminds the team that they must act in an ethical manner. It is not up to the team to judge the family, but only to advocate for the best interests of the children. The Director reminds staff not to discuss the incident with other parents. Staff follow the Director's instruction but continue to discuss the incident amongst themselves without regard for their whereabouts or who is around when holding these discussions. One staff member continues to remark "it would be so much easier if we only had to work with the children and didn't have to think about the parents." Many of the remaining staff laugh at this and agree. Scenario 2: Early Childhood (0-6 years) Alinta (4 years) has been in your childcare centre for the past 18 months and attends childcare five days a week. Over this time, you have noticed that the approaches to Alinta by Alinta's Mother and Father are very different. Alinta's Mother, Mayleen, is very calm and encouraging towards Alinta whilst the Father, Maliyan, is very stern and abrupt. Maliyan's expectations of what Alinta should be doing is well above Alinta's age and developmental stages. Alinta is meeting the expected developmental milestones. Alinta actively engages in learning through play, however, Maliyan questions the type of activities Alinta engages in and tells Alinta to only undertake structured learning activities and demands staff provide these. Staff have tried to explain the value of the unstructured play experiences provided in the environment, but Alinta's Father appears unsatisfied and continues to direct Alinta to certain experiences only. When you have attempted to raise your concerns with Mayleen, who you find more approachable, Mayleen discloses that they lost a son, Shing, three years before Alinta was born. Shing was tragically killed walking home from school when a drunk driver whose car mounted the curb. Shing was at primary school and was deemed to be 'gifted and talented' and in Mayleen's view, Maliyan is wanting Alinta to be as 'academically able as Shing'. Mayleen confides that she is concerned that Maliyan places too much pressure on Alinta because Maliyan is seeking to make Alinta into a surrogate for Shing. You have noticed a change in Alinta when their father collects them. Alinta becomes more withdrawn and subdued. In observing Maliyan one day you are uncomfortable with Maliyan strapping Alinta into the car. In your view, Maliyan was overly disciplining Alinta for not completing their letter formation. Maliyan is yelling so loudly at Alinta that the other children in the centre are becoming visibly upset and are cowering behind the other educators. You now regret telling Maliyan in your feedback that Alinta found it very difficult to focus during today's learning activities and was easily distracted and playing around with a couple of the other girls. Document title: CHCPRT001_AE_Pro_20f3 Page 13 of 25 Resource ID: PRJ0062485_CHCPRT001_AE_Pro2of3 inf 2 NSW TAF GOVERNMENT The following day, Maliyan arrives to drop off Alinta. Maliyan seems very quiet and quickl clings to the main educators' leg. Maliyan leaves and the educator attempts to engage Alinta in one of their favourite activities. Alinta sits at the table but does not engage. Alinta continues to be withdrawn throughout the morning. Table 7 School based scenarios (5-12 years) School based scenarios (5 - 12 years) Document title: CHCPRT001_AE_Pro_2of3 Page 14 of 25 Resource ID: PRJ0062485_CHCPRT001_AE_Pro2of3