Child protection
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
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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
- Exclusive
- Melbourne 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
- Exclusive
- Melbourne childcare crisis
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
- Exclusive
- Crime
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
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
- Opinion
- Childcare
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
- Exclusive
- Melbourne childcare crisis
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
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
Innocent male childcare workers likely to be driven from sector
Male early learning educators will face increased scrutiny and likely quit amid the fallout from sex abuse charges against a Melbourne man who worked across 20 childcare centres.
- Nicole Precel
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