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Education Minister Jason Clare said the bill to tackle abuse in childcare centres would not leave parents stranded if a location closed.

Failing childcare centres will get grace period before funding is pulled

Child safety advocates say the bill introduced to parliament on Wednesday will not fix the systemic problems facing the sector.

  • Nick Newling and Nicole Precel

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

‘Critical’ children’s commissioner role ‘needs to be filled with urgency’

The state government says a new children’s commissioner must be hired urgently, despite leaving the job vacant for four months before the state’s most serious childcare safety crisis erupted.

  • 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
A court has granted detectives more time to investigate accused paedophile Joshua Brown.

Six key dates at centre of childcare rape allegations against Joshua Brown

New details have emerged of the extent of the criminal charges against a childcare worker accused of sexually abusing babies and toddlers between April 2022 and January 2023.

  • Carla Jaeger and Sherryn Groch
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
Delilah Lewis with her broken arm in 2023.

Revealed: The Sydney childcare centres not meeting national standards

Hundreds of the state’s childcare centres are not meeting standards. Search the full list to find your centre.

  • Emily Kowal and Nigel Gladstone
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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
Childcare centre.

Forget knee-jerk measures – parents know the change needed for safer childcare

As long as childcare centres are places for profit, patch-up solutions like those offered by my centre are all that parents will be offered.

  • Wendy Syfret
Employers need to ask the right questions to prevent evil entering workplaces.

My job is to root out dodgy workers. These are the warning signs to look for in childcare

I investigate employee misconduct in the childcare, aged care and education sectors - and I’ve seen how evil infiltrates workplaces.

  • Paul O'Halloran
Joshua Dale Brown.

Another childcare centre added to accused paedophile’s list of workplaces

A fifth childcare centre has been added to the updated list of accused paedophile Joshua Brown’s workplaces, bringing the total to 24.

  • Caroline Schelle, Carla Jaeger and Sherryn Groch

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