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Childcare misconduct reports have increased in the last year by 40 per cent while stories of abuse made national headlines in 2025.

Numbers of kids in childcare falls despite subsidy cost nearing $4b for quarter

A social research expert warned there were lessons from the latest data for the prime minister’s ambition of universal childcare.

  • Brittany Busch

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Workers in aged, disability and child care will be among the beneficiaries of student loans.

Perth childcare fined $25,000 for leaving child on bus on 39-degree day

The tribunal heard the boy was picked up from his pre-primary class and boarded the bus with other children who had been picked up from different schools around the suburb.

  • Hannah Murphy
Arvind Ajay Singh, 43, was convicted of indecent treatment of a child under care.

Childcare abuser jailed, family left disgusted by long wait for justice

Arvind Ajay Singh will spend only 10 months behind bars – a sentence the victim’s father said had left him “absolutely devastated”.

  • Dan Nolan
Parents and community members rally in a protest against the closure of the Town of Bassendean’s Wind in the Willows daycare centre.

Council documents do little to quell parents’ anger as much-loved Bassendean daycare’s sale looms

Wind in the Willows has been operating in the Town of Bassendean for more than 40 years, but revelations the service was deep in the red have raised more questions than answers.

  • Hamish Hastie
Principals were told too many tradespeople were unable to do their jobs due to not having the checks.

Hundreds of Queenslanders stopped from working with kids under crackdown

Figures released on Monday show more than 540 Blue Cards were suspended or withdrawn since changes were brought in by the Crisafulli government last year.

  • Courtney Kruk
Australian-made babies: just what Matt Canavan ordered.

Matt Canavan wants more Australian babies. But Australian women might just say no

The new Nationals leader wants us to return to the good old days when Australia’s birth rate was much higher. OK, but let’s check what was so good about those times.

  • Virginia Haussegger
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The Little Gems Early Learning Centre’s bumblebee room caters to children aged between two and three years.

Child’s death during daycare nap time leads to $15,000 fine

The two-year-old was found to have died from natural causes, but an investigation revealed numerous hazards at the centre.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
Twelve Jenny’s Kindergarten centres have changed hands in NSW.

Major childcare company exits Sydney centres after repeated breaches

One of Australia’s largest childcare providers has been almost entirely shut down, after 12 of its centres recorded almost 500 confirmed breaches since they first opened.

  • Emily Kowal
The crisis has not receded for the commercial childcare operators at the core of the sex abuse scandal.

Commercial childcare operators fight to survive as parents head for exits after scandal

Major financial backers including superannuation giants are also cutting their exposure to the sector.

  • Colin Kruger
Only About Children Morningside.

Daycare fined after child, 3, slipped away and was picked up by passer-by

A magistrate says it was “good luck, not good management” that the child wasn’t harmed.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt