Education Minister Jason Clare announces major childcare safety changes
Minister Jason Clare announces new childcare safety measures. They include banning phones and requiring staff training. This follows a safety inquiry.
The government accepted just one of 23 recommendations from a childcare safety inquiry. The inquiry found serious failures.
These failures let predators target vulnerable children. Clare announced new steps.
These include removing phones from childcare centres. Police said this is important to protect children.
The changes also include required safety training for all staff. Working-with-children checks will happen across state borders.
This means people banned in one state cannot work in another. Funding will be cut to centres that fail to meet safety standards.
Clare acknowledged something important. Governments, both Labor and Liberal, had not done enough to protect children.
This has been true for the past decade. Child safety advocates criticised the response.
They called it a "slap in the face". They also renewed calls for a dedicated federal minister for child safety.
- 1 of 23
- Recommendations accepted
- More than 1 million
- Families relying on childcare
- Past 10 years
- Years of inaction
Why it mattersHow childcare centres operate matters. It affects the safety of children. It also affects more than one million families. These families rely on childcare every day.
AustraliaAustralian families using childcare will see changes to safety protocols and phone policies at centres, and consistent rules across states.
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