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Sydney childcare centre censured for taping toddlers’ mouths shut

A north shore childcare centre has received a formal warning after educators taped toddlers’ mouths shut as part of a “breathing exercise”.

  • Emily Kowal

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Commissioner, Paul Anastassiou KC is seen during the official opening of the Commission of Inquiry into the Child Safety System at the Brisbane Magistrates Court in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Queensland’s child safety system is ‘broken’. This body is tasked with fixing it

A 17-month inquiry, which began on Wednesday, will investigate failures in the institutions and processes that exist to protect our young.

  • William Davis
Education Minister Ben Carroll says children’s commissioner role must be filled urgently.

Pressure grows on Labor for answers on childcare safety crisis

Criticism is mounting over critical role left vacant and unheeded warnings that children were in danger.

  • Noel Towell
Childcare crisis.

‘Children will be abused’: Childcare warning the state ignored

The children’s watchdog warned for years that an underfunded protection scheme would result in abuse.

  • Noel Towell
Investors are demanding answers over what G8 Education knew about alleged childcare abuser Joshua Brown.

Daycare chain’s investors demand answers over childcare safety crisis

Shareholders want explanations from childcare chain G8 following revelations by this masthead over its handling of the Joshua Dale Brown case.

  • Carla Jaeger, Noel Towell and Sherryn Groch
Joshua Dale Brown

How childcare providers led police on a wild goose chase for an alleged paedophile

Joshua Brown had been fired from at least three other childcare centres before he was arrested and had glaring errors on his CV, this masthead can reveal.

  • Sherryn Groch, Caroline Schelle and Carla Jaeger
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Opposition Leader David Crisafulli promising the scheme during an election stop at a Townsville preschool last year.

New Queensland scheme fast-tracked to protect children in childcare

“I have every belief that if this system was in place, Ashley Paul Griffith would have been intercepted earlier,” the premier says.

  • William Davis
Illustration: Monique Westermann

Childcare horrors are shocking, but they’re no surprise to me

I’ve been investigating the childcare industry for almost a year. Now, Australia’s children deserve no less than a royal commission or independent inquiry.

  • Adele Ferguson
Joshua Brown pictured at a childcare centre where he worked in Essendon from February until days before his arrest in May.

Sex abuse investigation nets second man known to alleged childcare rapist

Another alleged offender has been charged with dozens of sex crimes against children as part of a major investigation that uncovered the separate Melbourne childcare centre abuse crisis.

  • Carla Jaeger, Chris Vedelago and Sherryn Groch
While giving children the tools to talk about consent, the responsibility to protect them lies with the adults.

How to talk to very young children about consent

As parents reel from this week’s harrowing news of child sex abuse allegations, many are struggling with how to explain notions of consent to very young children. But there are teachable strategies available to better empower them.

  • Claire Heaney

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/child-protection-1n7y