What are the rules for child safety in childcare centres? Here's what we know about the regulations as they currently stand.

Queensland childcare centres are taking security measures into their own hands amid sickening child sex abuse allegations ...

A review of system responses to child sexual abuse is underway in Queensland following the jailing of one of Australia's worst pedophiles.

The union representing teachers in early childhood education and care is shocked and distressed by revelations of abuse and mistreatment of young ...

States and territories collect different kinds of information about child safety. So it is hard to know what is going on in ...

Early childhood centres are so concerned with their reputation or running into legal trouble that educators are dissuaded ...

A Queensland review into child sexual abuse responses has heard defamation fears and a focus on an organisation's "reputation ...

Federal Labor plans to introduce laws that reform the childcare sector as Education Minister Jason Clare admits change has ...

Childcare operators are demanding a national employment register and wider criminal checks for all daycare workers, 18 months ...

Child safety officers should be compulsory at every childcare service, and Victoria should create an independent regulator in ...

Policies that impact vulnerable populations like children often don’t get as much attention from state lawmakers as special ...

Just a day after the Herald raised the question of the oversight of childcare, fresh revelations about the alleged abuse of ...