Why there’s no ‘silver bullet’ to make childcare safe

Parents send their young children to childcare trusting they’ll return home each day safely. 

But families are in shock after a Victorian childcare worker was charged with 70 offences, including sexual assault and producing child abuse material. The alleged victims were as young as 5 months old. 

The staff member had worked at 20 different centres and held a valid Working with Children Check. 

Today, Caroline Croser-Barlow from The Front Project, which works to improve early childhood education, on whether the system is safe and how governments can fix it. 

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Caroline Croser-Barlow, CEO of The Front Project