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26 October 2026

Childcare is undergoing a 'reckoning' but safety gaps remain

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Childcare is undergoing a 'reckoning' but safety gaps remain

Governments have introduced sweeping changes to fix systemic failures in childcare, but advocates say a bigger shift is needed to address the dominance of for-profit providers.

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