Child Care news

• 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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• Childcare centre closed indefinitely due to rodents and mould

  04-12-2025 05:00 via abc.net.au
  
  Parents have been left scrambling for childcare weeks out from Christmas due to health and safety breaches at a facility on the Central Coast.
  
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• NT announces childcare compliance 'crackdown' after toddler's death

  01-12-2025 22:26 via abc.net.au
  
  The Northern Territory government has announced a "crackdown" on compliance at childcare centres across the territory, following the death of a toddler at a rural Darwin centre in 2023.
  
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• Minister won't commit to independent review amid childcare sector scrutiny

  30-11-2025 19:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The early childhood education minister is refusing to say whether the federal government will establish an independent review of childcare standards.
  
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• Minister will not commit to childcare inquiry despite safety concerns

  30-11-2025 19:41 via abc.net.au
  
  The early childhood education minister is refusing to say whether the federal government will establish an independent review of childcare standards.
  
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• How the ABC uncovered the dangers lurking in Australia's childcare centres

  27-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  This story is about something deeper than policy or profit. It's about the trust parents place in childcare every morning when they hand over their children, believing they will be safe — only to find they're not.
  
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• Parents in shock over inaction to childcare abuse claim

  23-11-2025 22:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Only 10 per cent of allegations of sexual abuse or grooming by childcare workers in Western Australia in the past six years have resulted in someone being banned from working in the industry.
  
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• A fraction of abuse claims against childcare staff result in sector bans, data shows

  23-11-2025 22:29 via abc.net.au
  
  Only 10 per cent of allegations of sexual abuse or grooming by childcare workers in Western Australia in the past six years have resulted in someone being banned from working in the industry.
  
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• When childcare feels like a risk do women pay the price?

  22-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  What happens to gender equality when the childcare system meant to support working parents becomes a source of fear?
   
  
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• The childcare reckoning: How the abuse crisis is rewriting parenthood

  22-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  What happens to gender equality when the childcare system meant to support working parents becomes a source of fear?
   
  
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• An impossible choice: Protect your child or save your future

  22-11-2025 19:00 via abc.net.au
  
  What happens to gender equality when the childcare system meant to support working parents becomes a source of fear?
   
  
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• Single educator left watching 17 kids on day boy escaped childcare centre

  19-11-2025 22:16 via abc.net.au
  
  A Perth childcare centre is fined after a child escaped last year, likely by using his "above-average" climbing skills to scale a fence.
  
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• Childcare centre fined $50k after child escapes, wanders onto road

  19-11-2025 22:16 via abc.net.au
  
  A Perth childcare centre is fined after a child escaped last year, likely by using his "above-average" climbing skills to scale a fence.
  
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• Parents in 'childcare desert' scrambling as operator goes into administration

  18-11-2025 06:27 via abc.net.au
  
  One of the few childcare operators in Broken Hill has closed its doors indefinitely with 24 hours warning after entering voluntary administration.
  
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• I’m a male early childhood educator. I worry about my son in care

  18-11-2025 06:26 via abc.net.au
  
  While the childcare crisis has left me concerned about my own child's safety, as a male early childhood educator, I'm also worried about the future of men in the sector, writes Ben. 
  
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• Children pulled from day care after allegations against employee's husband

  14-11-2025 07:51 via abc.net.au
  
  Martha Sawicki says she will have to move towns as she can no longer send her children to the only long day care centre at Hopetoun in WA, following child exploitation charges laid against a man connected to the centre.
  
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• Response to daughter's injury shocks mum as childcare company faces scrutiny

  11-11-2025 19:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Mariam Benyamin's worst fears were realised when her toddler was injured at a Little Zak's Academy centre in western Sydney. New documents show she's far from alone.
  
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• Mother cancels childcare enrolment over response to daughter's injury

  11-11-2025 19:59 via abc.net.au
  
  Mariam Benyamin's worst fears were realised when her toddler was injured at a Little Zak's Academy centre in Western Sydney. New documents show she's far from alone.
  
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• Childcare centre and workers charged after toddler's death outside Darwin

  11-11-2025 08:26 via abc.net.au
  
  The Northern Territory government has confirmed a rural Darwin childcare centre and three of its supervisors have been charged after the death of a toddler at the centre in 2023.
  
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• Professors urge governments to overhaul 'broken' childcare system

  10-11-2025 19:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Some of Australia's leading early childhood education professors join forces to release a six-point action plan to help fix the country's "broken" childcare system.
  
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• Professors release six-point plan to fix 'broken' childcare system

  10-11-2025 19:38 via abc.net.au
  
  Some of Australia's leading early childhood education professors join forces to release a six-point action plan to help fix the country's "broken" childcare system.
  
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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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