Nothing untoward in feedback about Little Professors Learning Centre before termination: MOE

“There were a variety of things, indeed, some of the feedback was about, for example, the quality of food, another child’s behaviour to a parent’s child, reports on services or the teachers and we also had a couple of reports from the teachers as employees,” he said.

“There was nothing untoward in the feedback that we have received from Little Professors, and nothing different from what we had seen across other operators.”

He added that there was a serious incident in February, prompting MOE to take action as soon as it received the information.

“We had, as our first priority, stepped in to provide care for the children and then subsequently, when there were some issues to do with the finances highlighted, we made a police report and that matter is under investigation,” he said.

LPLC’s services were terminated by MOE on Feb 14 amid investigations into unpaid staff salaries and double deductions from parents’ GIRO accounts. A police report has been filed over the fee anomalies.

The centre director could not be contacted.

The private operator ran student care centres in eight primary schools – Anchor Green, Jing Shan, Kranji, Punggol Cove, Waterway, Westwood, Hong Wen and White Sands.

It also provided Kindergarten Care for MOE’s kindergartens in six of these primary schools.