Joshua Brown sacked from previous child care centre
He was sacked from one childcare centre in 2021 over his handling of an incident report.
There's no suggestion that Joshua Brown engaged in any offending during his time at the centre.
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Child sexual offender caught working at Queensland daycare
A man convicted of sexually abusing a child has faced court in Queensland, after he was caught working at a daycare centre run by his wife. The 44-year-old NSW man appeared in court on Thursday. He was employed at Beenleigh Montessori Early learning Centre, carrying out odd jobs, 7NEWS reported. His wife, 46, was the director at the centre. The man was convicted of sexually abusing a child in NSW in 2007. He spent eight months in prison, and is banned from working with children. On Wednesday night the man was arrested at his Logan home. Police said there have been no reported incidents at the Beenleigh centre. The 44-year-old faced court on Thursday and pleaded guilty to two child protection breaches. He was fined $2000. The owner of the centre said they did not know about the man's criminal history. In a different case, a man has been charged with indecently treating a child at a Brisbane childcare centre run by embattled provider Affinity Education Group. The 21-year-old Cleveland man was charged earlier in July, the Queensland Police Service confirmed on Thursday. 'It is alleged the offence involving a four-year-old child occurred at a Tingalpa child care facility on July 10,' police said in a statement. The man has been charged with one count of indecent treatment of a child. The centre is owned by Affinity, which also employed alleged pedophile Joshua Dale Brown at several centres across Melbourne before his arrest this year. In a statement, the company said it had stood down the Cleveland man after reporting the matter to the police. Sussan Ley says the Coalition 'stands ready' to work 'constructively' with Labor to enact stronger childcare policies and called on the states to 'step up'. This comes after Victorian childcare worker Joshua Brown, 26, was hit with 70 child abuse charges. In a separate incident on Wednesday, a 21-year-old Queensland man was also charged with indecent treatment of a child at a Brisbane childcare centre. Speaking from Moreton Bay, Queensland, the Opposition Leader said parents 'don't have the confidence' or the 'faith and trust' in centres to look after their children and keep them safe. 'Our children are precious and it is disgusting and unacceptable that these incidences have taken place, and it makes me feel physically sick every time I hear of something,' she said. 'It's our young children and babies who are at risk in childcare centres with these hideous individuals on the loose.' Education Minister Jason Clare is set to introduce new legislation that will allow the Commonwealth to pull funding from centres that are not complying with standards and allow anti-fraud officers to undertake snap investigations without a warrant or police presence.
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6 hours ago
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Calls for childcare register to include work histories
A national childcare worker register should show the employment history of staff after revelations an accused child abuser was sacked from one facility but continued working unimpeded. Joshua Dale Brown, 26, has been charged with more than 70 sex offences against eight alleged victims aged under two at a childcare centre in Melbourne. Authorities have previously said there were no known complaints against him, however childcare giant Nido Early Learning has confirmed Brown was sacked while on probation after completing 18 shifts at a centre in Werribee, in Melbourne's west. The incident happened before he started working at the G8-owned Creative Garden centre at Point Cook in Melbourne's southwest, where he is accused of abusing children between April 2022 and January 2023. A Nido Early Learning spokesperson said Brown was terminated over "unsatisfactory attention" given to an internal incident report related to one child's behaviour towards another child. He was also subject to two misconduct investigations while he was working at G8, both of which found the non-sexual claims involving children were substantiated. He was suspended and then resigned after the second investigation. Both incidents came after the alleged abuse for which he has been charged. Federal and state jurisdictions have promised to fast-track a national register for childcare workers, after it was discovered Brown had worked at 24 facilities since 2017. New laws to strip dodgy childcare centres of federal funding and other changes will be introduced by the government when parliament resumes, however there are concerns that may not be enough to prevent abuse. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Sam Page said the proposed register must provide more oversight on educators' employment histories, including where they have worked and their employment patterns. "What we want to stop is educators demonstrating poor practice or harm towards children from jumping from one service to the next and nobody can see the pattern or complaints," she told AAP. Currently, the only information about educators childcare employers have access to when a worker applies for a job is their CV and referees. Ms Page said the register's board must take firm action against misconduct that may not reach the criminal threshold. "Children are such a vulnerable cohort. It often is difficult to reach that threshold of evidence ... so I do think we need to have better safeguards in place," she said. The parents of about 2000 children who crossed paths with Brown have been told to get them tested for infectious diseases. His work history was updated this week to include five new centres. Investigators have blamed delays on gathering information on his employment on a lack of centralised records, revealing they had to get search warrants to obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical data. Former royal commissioner Robert Fitzgerald, who sat on the inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, said it had been difficult to get Australia's governments to act on recommendations around record keeping and information sharing. "Ten years on ... the job has not yet been done and it has not been done because the nine governments of Australia have not committed the willpower to get it done in a timely manner," Mr Fitzgerald said. "These are all manageable. These are all achievable and my disappointment is that progress has been made, but the job should have been done." The former commissioner said every gap left in safeguarding the sector meant children were put at risk. Early childhood education expert Erin Harper said the proposed register should delineate between criminal activity and non-criminal conduct to protect workers who make one small mistake but still weed out more concerning patterns. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028 A national childcare worker register should show the employment history of staff after revelations an accused child abuser was sacked from one facility but continued working unimpeded. Joshua Dale Brown, 26, has been charged with more than 70 sex offences against eight alleged victims aged under two at a childcare centre in Melbourne. Authorities have previously said there were no known complaints against him, however childcare giant Nido Early Learning has confirmed Brown was sacked while on probation after completing 18 shifts at a centre in Werribee, in Melbourne's west. The incident happened before he started working at the G8-owned Creative Garden centre at Point Cook in Melbourne's southwest, where he is accused of abusing children between April 2022 and January 2023. A Nido Early Learning spokesperson said Brown was terminated over "unsatisfactory attention" given to an internal incident report related to one child's behaviour towards another child. He was also subject to two misconduct investigations while he was working at G8, both of which found the non-sexual claims involving children were substantiated. He was suspended and then resigned after the second investigation. Both incidents came after the alleged abuse for which he has been charged. Federal and state jurisdictions have promised to fast-track a national register for childcare workers, after it was discovered Brown had worked at 24 facilities since 2017. New laws to strip dodgy childcare centres of federal funding and other changes will be introduced by the government when parliament resumes, however there are concerns that may not be enough to prevent abuse. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Sam Page said the proposed register must provide more oversight on educators' employment histories, including where they have worked and their employment patterns. "What we want to stop is educators demonstrating poor practice or harm towards children from jumping from one service to the next and nobody can see the pattern or complaints," she told AAP. Currently, the only information about educators childcare employers have access to when a worker applies for a job is their CV and referees. Ms Page said the register's board must take firm action against misconduct that may not reach the criminal threshold. "Children are such a vulnerable cohort. It often is difficult to reach that threshold of evidence ... so I do think we need to have better safeguards in place," she said. The parents of about 2000 children who crossed paths with Brown have been told to get them tested for infectious diseases. His work history was updated this week to include five new centres. Investigators have blamed delays on gathering information on his employment on a lack of centralised records, revealing they had to get search warrants to obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical data. Former royal commissioner Robert Fitzgerald, who sat on the inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, said it had been difficult to get Australia's governments to act on recommendations around record keeping and information sharing. "Ten years on ... the job has not yet been done and it has not been done because the nine governments of Australia have not committed the willpower to get it done in a timely manner," Mr Fitzgerald said. "These are all manageable. These are all achievable and my disappointment is that progress has been made, but the job should have been done." The former commissioner said every gap left in safeguarding the sector meant children were put at risk. Early childhood education expert Erin Harper said the proposed register should delineate between criminal activity and non-criminal conduct to protect workers who make one small mistake but still weed out more concerning patterns. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028 A national childcare worker register should show the employment history of staff after revelations an accused child abuser was sacked from one facility but continued working unimpeded. Joshua Dale Brown, 26, has been charged with more than 70 sex offences against eight alleged victims aged under two at a childcare centre in Melbourne. Authorities have previously said there were no known complaints against him, however childcare giant Nido Early Learning has confirmed Brown was sacked while on probation after completing 18 shifts at a centre in Werribee, in Melbourne's west. The incident happened before he started working at the G8-owned Creative Garden centre at Point Cook in Melbourne's southwest, where he is accused of abusing children between April 2022 and January 2023. A Nido Early Learning spokesperson said Brown was terminated over "unsatisfactory attention" given to an internal incident report related to one child's behaviour towards another child. He was also subject to two misconduct investigations while he was working at G8, both of which found the non-sexual claims involving children were substantiated. He was suspended and then resigned after the second investigation. Both incidents came after the alleged abuse for which he has been charged. Federal and state jurisdictions have promised to fast-track a national register for childcare workers, after it was discovered Brown had worked at 24 facilities since 2017. New laws to strip dodgy childcare centres of federal funding and other changes will be introduced by the government when parliament resumes, however there are concerns that may not be enough to prevent abuse. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Sam Page said the proposed register must provide more oversight on educators' employment histories, including where they have worked and their employment patterns. "What we want to stop is educators demonstrating poor practice or harm towards children from jumping from one service to the next and nobody can see the pattern or complaints," she told AAP. Currently, the only information about educators childcare employers have access to when a worker applies for a job is their CV and referees. Ms Page said the register's board must take firm action against misconduct that may not reach the criminal threshold. "Children are such a vulnerable cohort. It often is difficult to reach that threshold of evidence ... so I do think we need to have better safeguards in place," she said. The parents of about 2000 children who crossed paths with Brown have been told to get them tested for infectious diseases. His work history was updated this week to include five new centres. Investigators have blamed delays on gathering information on his employment on a lack of centralised records, revealing they had to get search warrants to obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical data. Former royal commissioner Robert Fitzgerald, who sat on the inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, said it had been difficult to get Australia's governments to act on recommendations around record keeping and information sharing. "Ten years on ... the job has not yet been done and it has not been done because the nine governments of Australia have not committed the willpower to get it done in a timely manner," Mr Fitzgerald said. "These are all manageable. These are all achievable and my disappointment is that progress has been made, but the job should have been done." The former commissioner said every gap left in safeguarding the sector meant children were put at risk. Early childhood education expert Erin Harper said the proposed register should delineate between criminal activity and non-criminal conduct to protect workers who make one small mistake but still weed out more concerning patterns. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028 A national childcare worker register should show the employment history of staff after revelations an accused child abuser was sacked from one facility but continued working unimpeded. Joshua Dale Brown, 26, has been charged with more than 70 sex offences against eight alleged victims aged under two at a childcare centre in Melbourne. Authorities have previously said there were no known complaints against him, however childcare giant Nido Early Learning has confirmed Brown was sacked while on probation after completing 18 shifts at a centre in Werribee, in Melbourne's west. The incident happened before he started working at the G8-owned Creative Garden centre at Point Cook in Melbourne's southwest, where he is accused of abusing children between April 2022 and January 2023. A Nido Early Learning spokesperson said Brown was terminated over "unsatisfactory attention" given to an internal incident report related to one child's behaviour towards another child. He was also subject to two misconduct investigations while he was working at G8, both of which found the non-sexual claims involving children were substantiated. He was suspended and then resigned after the second investigation. Both incidents came after the alleged abuse for which he has been charged. Federal and state jurisdictions have promised to fast-track a national register for childcare workers, after it was discovered Brown had worked at 24 facilities since 2017. New laws to strip dodgy childcare centres of federal funding and other changes will be introduced by the government when parliament resumes, however there are concerns that may not be enough to prevent abuse. Early Childhood Australia chief executive Sam Page said the proposed register must provide more oversight on educators' employment histories, including where they have worked and their employment patterns. "What we want to stop is educators demonstrating poor practice or harm towards children from jumping from one service to the next and nobody can see the pattern or complaints," she told AAP. Currently, the only information about educators childcare employers have access to when a worker applies for a job is their CV and referees. Ms Page said the register's board must take firm action against misconduct that may not reach the criminal threshold. "Children are such a vulnerable cohort. It often is difficult to reach that threshold of evidence ... so I do think we need to have better safeguards in place," she said. The parents of about 2000 children who crossed paths with Brown have been told to get them tested for infectious diseases. His work history was updated this week to include five new centres. Investigators have blamed delays on gathering information on his employment on a lack of centralised records, revealing they had to get search warrants to obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical data. Former royal commissioner Robert Fitzgerald, who sat on the inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, said it had been difficult to get Australia's governments to act on recommendations around record keeping and information sharing. "Ten years on ... the job has not yet been done and it has not been done because the nine governments of Australia have not committed the willpower to get it done in a timely manner," Mr Fitzgerald said. "These are all manageable. These are all achievable and my disappointment is that progress has been made, but the job should have been done." The former commissioner said every gap left in safeguarding the sector meant children were put at risk. Early childhood education expert Erin Harper said the proposed register should delineate between criminal activity and non-criminal conduct to protect workers who make one small mistake but still weed out more concerning patterns. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028
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6 hours ago
- News.com.au
A woman has been charged after a house fire critically injured two young girls
A woman has been charged with two counts of attempted murder following a suspicious house fire in Melbourne's southeast that left two young girls critically injured. Detectives from Victoria Police's Arson and Explosives Squad arrested a 37-year-old Chadstone woman on Thursday morning in connection with the May 21 blaze that tore through a two-storey townhouse on Terrigal Street. Emergency services were called to the property just before 9.40pm after reports of smoke and flames pouring from the building. Fire crews forced their way into the home, rescuing the woman and two girls, aged seven and eight at the time, from the first floor of the home. All three were rushed to hospital in critical condition. A 36-year-old man, also a resident, was not home at the time of the incident. The woman, who had been recovering in hospital, was formally charged on Thursday and remanded in custody. She is expected to appear before the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday.
