Cross-Party Nod for Probe Into ‘Rogue’ Childcare Firms

A small group of children play at the Robertson Street Kindy Childcare Centre in Helensburgh south of Sydney, Australia, on April 3, 2020. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

Shocking allegations of children being sexually abused, restrained for hours, and served low-quality meals have prompted a government-backed parliamentary inquiry into the childcare sector.

The New South Wales (NSW) probe is the first called since an ABC investigation revealed widespread failings in the nation’s burgeoning for-profit childcare system.