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Early childhood education enrolment for First Nations children reaches 95% across the country. Follow updates live It follows serious safety breaches and a number of high-profile arrests of childcare workers in multiple states for the alleged abuse of children in childcare centres. Our early educators are the best asset we’ve got to keep our children safe. They had six months to do the first stage of the mandatory training and 99 per cent of them completed it within 4 months. It tells you a lot about how seriously they’re taking this.