article_snippet: Childcare centres around Australia are sending children home with poo-filled underwear in plastic bags to the shock of parents who have labelled the practice disgusting.
article_snippet: Nationwide guidelines prevent childcare centres from rinsing or washing clothing, so if a child has an accident, Nationwide guidelines pants Her daughter's poo-filled underwear must be bagged and labelled and left in a communal bucket for parents to take home at the end of the day.
article_snippet: " the Childcare providers ask that you bring in a spare pair of undies and shorts... but that was all I was told,' Ms Spender told Daily Mail Australia. '
article_snippet: Recommendations from the National Health and Medical Research Council’s 'Staying Healthy: Preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services' guidelines released in 2012, childcare centres are advised to 'place any soiled clothes in a plastic bag or alternative, so parents can take parents child’s clothes home'.
article_snippet: While national guidelines which enforced the activity are not legislated, some childcare centres around Australia choose to accept the recommendations, and enforce the practice of sending home soiled underwear as part of the centre's blanket policy.
article_snippet: Cristal Jamieson, a mother from Brisbane, would like to see a blanket rule that if the centres cannot remove the poo, the centres throw out the underwear .
article_snippet: Childcare centres are advised by the National Health and Medical Research Council to 'place any soiled clothes in a plastic bag or alternative, so parents can take parents child’s clothes home' Ms Jamieson said that Ms Jamieson has made a formal complaint with the Queensland Department of Child Services .
article_snippet: I asked for some childcare centres around Australia to throw the underwear out but staff changes mean that not everyone knows and that my daughter's poo keeps being sent home.'
article_snippet: Ms Jamieson would like to see a blanket rule that if the centres cannot remove the poo, the centres throw out the underwear, and said that the practice is humiliating for children. '
highlights_snippet: Childcare centres around Australia are sending home poo in plastic bags .
  