03-07-2025
Our childcare system is facing a 'reckoning'
Education Minister Jason Clare has admitted that it's taken "too long" to standardise Working with Children Checks across Australia, with the topic on the agenda at the meeting of attorneys-general next week.
It comes after a Melbourne childcare worker was charged with over 70 offences — but while the Albanese Government has been "saying all the right things", is more action needed at a national level?
And Australia's first truth telling inquiry handed down its final report on Tuesday, the culmination of four long years of work. But are governments signalling a willingness to engage?
Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly are joined by Anna Henderson, SBS World News Chief Political Correspondent on The Party Room.
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