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I thank Vastiva for the ideas behind my latest revision. Don't bother searching for it, because I didn't submit it.

UN Childcare Resolution

A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Loratana

Description: Children are the future of the biological world. However, if we allow just anyone to care for children, we run the risk of losing our future.

As such, we resolve the following:

1. The following guidelines guidelines are the absolute minimum requirements for the member nations of the UN.

2. All member nations must create a licensing bureau for childcare facilities, which is to be part of a larger child-services bureau.

3. The child-services bureau is to have the power to shut down childcare facilities which are not compliant with laws pertaining to them, national or international, and to revoke licenses either temporarily or permanently.

4. All childcare facilities must be licensed.

5. The use of tobacco, alcohol, and other recreational drugs shall be disallowed in childcare facilities.

6. Anyone who has a standing conviction of any kind of abuse (child, elder, spouse) may not become licensed to care for children.

7. For those nations that have both robots and biological sentients, a robot may run a childcare facility only if it does not produce toxic chemicals as it runs. The robot must also be programmed not to kill the children it cares for.

8. Inspections of childcare facilities are to be conducted once per quarter-year at a random time.

9. The definition of the term "childcare facility" is: A home or business where children who are not related to the person running the facility are placed for care during the day. Schools are also childcare facilities.

May our future be as bright as the light of Glory.
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So, how do you like this one?

Sorry, I don't come to this forum often enough to know what went before in the earlier drafts so my comments may have already been considered. However, here goes:

I find the resolution overly technocratic and impositional. It imposes standards and regulations upon childcare facilities, entirely based upon risk minimisation rather than promotion of quality.

It lacks an acknowledgement of the link between child care and early childhood education. High quality early childhood education is the most successful form of child care, despite that not being its main purpose.

I would like a resolution that promotes a system that allows children to make a seamless learning journey from their earliest years into adulthood.
It should have a vision statement about stating that early childhood centres should be positively engaged in effective learning. The critical role that the teacher plays towards child development and student learning should be recognised. It would also note that early childhood centres celebrate diversity and recognise that success is achieved in partnerships with parents, the community and government.

Goals for nations to work towards could include:
• improved participation, including a target of 100% participation for three and four year olds;
• Families with children under three years old should be encouraged to participate in education;
• Full-cost funding for community-based centres in areas with low participation and in low socio-economic areas;
• All teaching staff in centres should be qualified and registered teachers by 2007;
• A national advisory service should be established to support early childhood services;
• All children before they start school should have a legislated entitlement to free early childhood education;
• Parents and staff should have an entitlement to involvement in the governance of early childhood services.

Article 9 - What if parents care for their own children as well as the children of others?

Article 9 in conjunction with Article 5 - this would prevent teachers from drinking at an end of term party after all the kids have gone home, and - if a parent cares for children in their own house - it would also prevent them from drinking in their house. Also it would stop teachers/parents smoking too - and if teachers can not smoke in their own staff room I think you will have a riot on your hands :}

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Basically I would not class schools as child-care facitilies. They are something totally different.

ok, next revision, the school bit goes. Other than that, and the robot bit, which I added because of the differing tech levels that each nation possess, I based it entirely on the system of the State of Illinois in RL USA (after closing a couple loopholes), and no one ever argues anywhere that risk minimization is a bad thing. Promotion of quality is covered by other resolutions, present and future (meaning that if this passes when I submit I'll write an additional resolution.) Actually, in Illinois schools are drug-free zones (meaning no tobacco, no alcohol, no illegal drugs on school property), and all the medicines not in teacher's desks (which is pretty much limited to actafed, and for them only) are in the nurse's office, except inhalers, which students are permitted to have on them at all times. At public high schools we have random drug searches to keep the schools drug-free. Another resolution I'm in the writing process on is an education quality resolution.... and yes, I'll edit article 9, because when I look at it now I see that I was being overly stupid.

UN Childcare Resolution

A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Loratana

Description: Children are the future of the biological world. However, if we allow just anyone to care for children, we run the risk of losing our future.

As such, we resolve the following:

1. The following guidelines guidelines are the absolute minimum requirements for the member nations of the UN.

2. All member nations must create a licensing bureau for childcare facilities, which is to be part of a larger child-services bureau.

3. The child-services bureau is to have the power to shut down childcare facilities which are not compliant with laws pertaining to them, national or international, and to revoke licenses either temporarily or permanently.

4. All childcare facilities must be licensed.

5. The use of tobacco, alcohol, and other recreational drugs shall be disallowed in childcare facilities.

6. Anyone who has a standing conviction of any kind of abuse (child, elder, spouse) may not become licensed to care for children.

7. For those nations that have both robots and biological sentients, a robot may run a childcare facility only if it does not produce toxic chemicals as it runs. The robot must also be programmed not to kill the children it cares for.

8. Inspections of childcare facilities are to be conducted once per quarter-year at a random time.

9. The definition of the term "childcare facility" is: A business or home used as a business where children are cared for during the day.

May our future be as bright as the light of Glory.

First and only bump. Gotta get some fresh perspectives...

I have said this in the past:

This proposal deals with a matter too minute for the UN to get involved in. I would support a children's rights convention, but a "one size fits all" daycare centre resolution is a waste of the UN's time.

Category: Moral Decency
This might have already been discussed, but why did you select "moral decency"? I personally think it might fall more under "human rights." Not that it wouldn't necessarily fit under moral decency - I just wanted to hear your thoughts/reasoning ...

As such, we resolve the following:

1. The following guidelines guidelines are the absolute minimum requirements for the member nations of the UN.
Combining these two bits might make for a neater proposal. (i.e. "As such, the UN resolves the following as the minimum requirements for childcare within UN member nations:" ... or however you want to word it)

5. The use of tobacco, alcohol, and other recreational drugs shall be disallowed in childcare facilities.
Perhaps add something about "when children are present" to hopefully solve some of the previously mentioned concerns. I don't have any problems with that, personally, but I can see how some might.

7. For those nations that have both robots and biological sentients, a robot may run a childcare facility only if it does not produce toxic chemicals as it runs. The robot must also be programmed not to kill the children it cares for.
Overly complicated wording, IMHO. Try condensing it more - maybe something like this? "Robots are allows to run a child care facility if it does not produce toxic chemicals and is programmed not to kill the children it cares for." Obviously, change it as needed, but being concise helps. (not that I can talk, giving my current proposal in progress, but anyhow ... )

9. The definition of the term "childcare facility" is: A business or home used as a business where children are cared for during the day.
Repetative - you don't need business in there twice. Perhaps "a building or location where children are cared for during the day." ? Again, however, the home bit is a sticky point. How people choose to parent their kids is another issue entirely and might be better left separate from this proposal.

May our future be as bright as the light of Glory.
Were you planning on including this in the proposal? If so, may I ask why?

The ideas are good, and I hope my comments are helpful. Good luck.

This might have already been discussed, but why did you select "moral decency"? I personally think it might fall more under "human rights." Not that it wouldn't necessarily fit under moral decency - I just wanted to hear your thoughts/reasoning ...
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8226620&postcount=3
A good resolution, but in the wrong category. This would probably go under "human Rights" or "Social Justice". Most likely the latter.
"A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency."

No alcohol, tobacco or child molesters, please. Yes, we're restricting your freedoms.


It's categorized correctly.

Mousebumples, I think you misunderstand number 9. I strictly define the term "childcare facility" as a business (building zoned for business) or "home used as a business", aka private day care. See, I got a lot of comments on my nondefinition of the term, so I decided to use my last guideline to define its minimum qualifications. You see, except for number 7, this entire resolution is based on the children services system of the state of Illinois in rl USA. That's not to say that this is the entire thing, but this is to be the start of a number of resolutions that change the lives of many children. I agree with your ideas for my first and seventh guidelines, but other than that, well, I think it's good.

Also, the last line is the ending salutation. It's like saying "May these times be productive for us all." at the end of a resolution that subsidises business.

UN Childcare Resolution

A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.

Category: Moral Decency

Strength: Mild

Proposed by: Loratana

Description: Children are the future of the biological world. However, if we allow just anyone to care for children, we run the risk of losing our future.

As such, we resolve the following as minimum standards for UN nations:

1. All member nations must have a licensing bureau for childcare facilities as part of a larger child-services bureau.

2. The child-services bureau is to have the power to shut down childcare facilities which are not compliant with laws pertaining to them, national or international, and to revoke licenses either temporarily or permanently.

3. All childcare facilities must be licensed.

4. The use of tobacco, alcohol, and other recreational drugs shall be disallowed in childcare facilities.

5. Anyone who has a standing conviction of any kind of abuse (child, elder, spouse) may not become licensed to care for children.

6. For those nations that have both robots and biological sentients, a robot may run a childcare facility so long as it does not produce chemicals toxic to the children it cares for, and is programmed not to kill them.

7. Inspections of childcare facilities are to be conducted once per quarter-year at a random time.

8. The definition of the term "childcare facility" is: A business where children are cared for. This includes "Private" facilities, which are facilities run out of people's homes.

May our future be as bright as the light of Glory.