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• Nearly 10,000 SA childcare incidents reported resulted in 'no action'

  05-11-2025 20:02 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's childcare regulator has cancelled the registration of just one provider in recent years, while nearly 10,000 reported incidents have resulted in no action, FOI documents obtained by the ABC have revealed.
  
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• Sydney mum recounts 'panic' when day care wrongly gave son to another person

  03-11-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Sophie Tilley says she arrived at her son's child care to be told an "older man in shorts" had already collected him.
  
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• Sophie recounts 'panic' when daycare wrongly gave son to another person

  03-11-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Sophie Tilley says she arrived at her son's childcare to be told an "older man in shorts" had already collected him.
  
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• Sophie recounts 'panic' when day care wrongly gave son to another person

  03-11-2025 20:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Sophie Tilley says she arrived at her son's child care to be told an "older man in shorts" had already collected him.
  
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• Father's 'sense of guilt' as childcare worker sentenced for injuring 4yo

  03-11-2025 03:43 via abc.net.au
  
  The Bathurst childcare worker is said to have used "considerable force" on the child, resulting in his head needing medical adhesive.
  
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• 'Families in tears' as daycare drought keeps workers out of jobs

  02-11-2025 21:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Daycare droughts are all too common in regional Australia, but in one New South Wales town, the shortage is so acute, the community is cracking.
  
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• Australia's scandal-ridden childcare sector a legacy of 'golden age' of reform

  02-11-2025 07:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The decision by past governments to push Australia's childcare industry in the direction of marketisation and corporatisation has left a lasting legacy.
  
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• It's become cliché to turn to Scandinavia for answers but sometimes we must

  31-10-2025 22:00 via abc.net.au
  
  This is not the first revelation about how we treat the most vulnerable in our society but such reports persistently reveal a deeper, and more distressing malaise about Australian society.
  
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• 'Everyone's seeing it': Inside the childcare sector a new problem is on the rise

  30-10-2025 05:45 via abc.net.au
  
  Parents are demanding answers from centre operators after their children were allegedly sexually abused by other children while in child care.
  
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• Woman jailed for $300,000 childcare centre fraud

  30-10-2025 03:11 via abc.net.au
  
  A woman who used credit cards from the childcare centre where she worked to purchase personal clothes and cosmetics has been sentenced to jail.
  
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• 'Matt and I have a secret': The abuse complaints made against Tasmanian childcare workers

  29-10-2025 19:27 via abc.net.au
  
  Almost two dozen sexual abuse complaints have been made against Tasmanian childcare workers since 2020, most of them by parents.
  
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• Childcare worker admits injuring 4yo who had to have head wound glued

  29-10-2025 02:48 via abc.net.au
  
  A NSW childcare worker has pleaded guilty to recklessly wounding the boy, who sustained a 2cm laceration when she tried to put him down for a rest.
  
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• Parents not told daughter's childcare teacher was a sex offender

  29-10-2025 01:13 via abc.net.au
  
  A Four Corners investigation reveals there are more childcare workers convicted or accused of sexual assault than the public has previously understood, including in the ACT.
  
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• Shocking scale of childcare abuse allegations laid bare in new report

  29-10-2025 00:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Victorian authorities have received almost 1,000 reports of alleged abuse and misconduct against early childhood educators in the past year, according to a new watchdog report.
  
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• On the dark web, predators are 'hunting in packs' to target childcare

  27-10-2025 19:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Paedophiles are using the dark web to share information about how to gain access to childcare centres to sexually abuse babies and toddlers while avoiding getting caught.
  
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• Are your kids safe in childcare? Here's what parents should know

  27-10-2025 06:59 via abc.net.au
  
  The scale of Australia's childcare crisis is deeply distressing for parents. These are the simple questions to ask any childcare provider to know if your child is safe. 
  
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• Sydney childcare centre closes after two workers charged with assault

  27-10-2025 04:34 via abc.net.au
  
  It comes after two female workers were accused of allegedly assaulting a toddler multiple times earlier this month. 
  
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• 'I don't think that the public has any idea': Paedophiles have infiltrated child care

  26-10-2025 19:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The true scale of abuse in Australia's childcare centres has been hidden. With 200,000 pages of previously confidential files, police tip-offs, and evidence from whistleblowers, Four Corners exposes the reality.
  
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• Toddler's family call for 'Ebony's Law' after childcare centre death

  26-10-2025 02:40 via abc.net.au
  
  The family of a 22-month-old girl who died at a Northern Territory child care centre last year are calling on the government to ban the type of fencing that caused her death under the banner of "Ebony's Law".
  
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• Childcare workers charged with allegedly assaulting toddler multiple times

  24-10-2025 07:58 via abc.net.au
  
  Little Zak's Academy said it had "zero tolerance" for any conduct that compromised the wellbeing of a child.
  
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• New childcare centres imposing waitlists amid worker shortage

  20-10-2025 01:31 via abc.net.au
  
  Hundreds of children in a regional Victorian city are on childcare waitlists, but centres say they cannot open to full capacity as they struggle to find qualified staff. 
  
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• Dozens of blacklisted Victorian workers stripped of children check

  09-10-2025 20:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The government says about 40 Victorian workers retained their Working with Children Check despite being deemed an unacceptable risk to children by the education department.
  
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• SA childcare centre 'unsuitable to open' amid supervision concerns

  07-10-2025 07:27 via abc.net.au
  
  The Education Standards Board has closed Edge Early Learning Centre at Plympton for 90 days following an investigation into reports of "inadequate supervision" of children. 
  
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• After-school care closure crisis leaves parents scrambling

  02-10-2025 22:17 via abc.net.au
  
  Parents rely on after-school care to be able to participate in the workforce, but in one SA country town, the only provider's future is unclear. 
  
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• How parallel parenting can create calm for children

  01-10-2025 06:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Parallel parenting is an approach that can occur after a high-conflict separation or where there has been family violence, but also when parents simply want space from one another.
  
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• Sydney child care shut down amid probe into alleged 'serious incidents'

  29-09-2025 13:18 via abc.net.au
  
  A childcare centre in Sydney's south-west has been closed down immediately, with an investigation underway into concerns about children's safety.
  
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• Child care 'risks losing more' staff in NSW under plan for bigger fines

  26-09-2025 07:43 via abc.net.au
  
  Non-profit childcare providers have pushed back against the NSW government's plan to triple maximum penalties for breaching regulations.
  
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• Childcare centre temporarily shut amid claims children were left unsupervised

  24-09-2025 03:13 via abc.net.au
  
  A childcare centre in Adelaide's inner south-west has been ordered to close for two weeks after being handed an emergency action notice following claims children were left unsupervised.
  
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• CEO quizzed over bonuses after increase in childcare centre breaches

  23-09-2025 03:03 via abc.net.au
  
  The CEO of Affinity Education Group appears at a state parliamentary inquiry into the sector.
  
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• Childcare worker charged over alleged common assault of 4yo

  22-09-2025 10:34 via abc.net.au
  
  Police allege the 18-year-old educator dragged a four-year-old boy by the arm and threw him on a mattress at a childcare centre in Bathurst earlier this year.
  
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• Childcare worker charged after boy injured when allegedly forced onto bed

  17-09-2025 02:53 via abc.net.au
  
  The female childcare worker has been accused of forcing the four-year-old boy onto a bed resulting in a 2-centimetre cut on the child's head.
  
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• Parents kept in the dark over hundreds of blacklisted childcare workers

  16-09-2025 21:19 via abc.net.au
  
  About 400 educators were issued prohibition orders banning them from early education or care in the past five years, the ABC can reveal.
  
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• Perth childcare worker accused of indecent dealing with two young girls

  16-09-2025 06:22 via abc.net.au
  
  A male childcare worker indecently touched two young girls in his care at separate childcare centres in Perth, a court hears.
  
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• Is it ever OK to send a sick kid to child care?

  16-09-2025 02:05 via abc.net.au
  
  Work demands and a lack of village mean keeping a child at home from care every time they have a sniffle can be a dilemma for many parents. So when it it OK to send them?  
  
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• Childcare worker speaks out after being accused of abusing toddlers

  15-09-2025 21:53 via abc.net.au
  
  A Goodstart worker who allegedly abused toddlers at a Ballarat centre speaks out for the first time and says he is appealing after being banned from working with children.
  
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• A $26m unorthodox childcare deal with devastating fallout

  13-09-2025 23:06 via abc.net.au
  
  Despite G8 knowing about problems, an ABC investigation can reveal how the childcare giant downplayed concerns and maintained it had conducted checks.
  
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• Head of working with children checks in NSW sacked

  10-09-2025 06:19 via abc.net.au
  
  Steve Kinmond has been removed from office after an independent investigation found he intervened in a "working with children check" while failing to declare a conflict of interest.
  
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• NSW government flags crackdown on childcare centres with proposed reforms

  10-09-2025 01:31 via abc.net.au
  
  The Minns Government will push ahead with what it describes as "landmark" legislation to make the childcare sector safer.
  
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• Childcare worker under investigation was hired and fired by another facility

  09-09-2025 02:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The worker is under investigation after what's understood to have been two incidents of alleged physical violence against a child in the past four months. 
  
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• Sydney childcare centre mix-up puts role of grandparents in spotlight

  06-09-2025 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Experts say cost-of-living pressures are impacting child care, with many grandparents being relied on to help ease the burden on struggling parents.
  
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• SA education minister says childcare staff key to preventing ‘shocking’ incidents

  04-09-2025 23:36 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's Education Minister believes there is more work to be done to boost safeguards within the childcare sector. He says well-trained staff would be the key to preventing "shocking things happening to kids".
  
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• The sector subject to more ill-treatment allegations than child care

  04-09-2025 22:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The NSW Minister for Families and Communities, Kate Washington, says she inherited an out-of-home care system that was "spiralling out of control", but since the change in government, reports of abuse have kept rising. 
  
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• Parents speak out after child goes missing from Sydney daycare centre

  04-09-2025 10:02 via abc.net.au
  
  The ABC has learned of a number of incidents at a childcare centre in Sydney's south in the months leading up to a toddler being mistakenly taken home by a grandfather on Monday.
  
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• Perth childcare centres failing basic quality checks named

  03-09-2025 23:12 via abc.net.au
  
  A childcare operator who tried to force a pregnant employee to resign is among those named and shamed by the federal government in a recent crackdown on national quality standards.
  
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• Toddler missing for hours after grandparent picked up wrong child

  03-09-2025 08:50 via abc.net.au
  
  An investigation is underway after a young child went missing from a childcare centre in Sydney's south for several hours on Tuesday, in an incident the acting education minister has called "unacceptable".
  
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• 'We all went into panic': Families' dismay over childcare announcement

  01-09-2025 21:15 via abc.net.au
  
  A working mum has hit out at the way the closure of a Tasmanian town's childcare centre has been handled, with families left without an option for their kids.
  
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• Child diagnosed with fractured skull a month after childcare centre fall

  27-08-2025 06:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Busy Bees New Lambton failed to report a serious fall until a child presented to hospital nearly a month later with a fractured skull, budget estimates has heard.
  
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• Spotlight on childcare reforms reveals how far there is to go

  22-08-2025 23:20 via abc.net.au
  
  Australia's long overdue reforms to improve safety across the nation's childcare centres are a start but still a long way off best practice compared to other countries, writes Conor Duffy.
  
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• CCTV trial for hundreds of childcare centres to be rolled out later this year

  22-08-2025 06:44 via abc.net.au
  
  Education Minister Jason Clare says the new measures won't be a "silver bullet" but they will help improve the safety of children in childcare.
  
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• 'Appalled and shocked': Early childhood teacher quit after working in WA

  22-08-2025 00:20 via abc.net.au
  
  A former early childhood teacher who has worked in several states and territories says she quit the profession after working in Western Australia.
  
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