There has been a product safety recall from Product Safety Australia regarding the Cotton On Kids— Baby Summer Bundler Sleeping Bag, purchased between 1 October 2017 - 8 December 2017.

A Melbourne childcare operator "Academy For Kids" has been fined $85,000, for underpaying two workers at Glen Waverley by $14,341 between 2013 and 2015.

The Department Of Education and Training (Aus) has developed "The Child Care Enforcement Action Register" which lists services that have been suspended or sanctioned under "A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999 (the Administration Act)".

In VIC there has been a statewide crackdown on dodgy childcare providers, where centres have been found guilty of breaches including physically disciplining children, failing to protect them from harm, and misleading parents about their centre's quality rating.

Early Childhood Services are required to comply with Australia's privacy law, known as the Privacy Act 1988 (the Act).

In NSW, children who have not been immunised due to their parent’s vaccine conscientious objection cannot be enrolled in childcare.

There has been a product safety recall from Product Safety Australia for the VTech Baby Pack & Go Travel Mobile and VTech Baby Shake and Sing Elephant Rattle

Key changes and updates to the National Regulations and Law are now in full swing. These include supporting Family Day Care to achieve better compliance and quality across the whole sector and an introduction of a national educator to child ratio of 1:15 for services providing education and care to school age children.

From the 01 Oct, a new National Regulation will be put in place that will give Educators the right to overrule parents requests for their child's sleep arrangements to reduce the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).  

Today (Thursday 7th September), it is estimated that 3000 to 4000 Early Childhood Educators throughout Australia walked off the job at 3:20 pm to protest over pay conditions, calling for an increase of 35 per cent.  It is the largest early education walk - off in Australia's history.