The national child safety training package is reaching its final stage. Course 5 Advanced Child Safety Training will be available in Geccko from 30 September 2026, completing the national framework designed to strengthen child safety across education and care services.
Over 1,300 ECEC services were visited in nationwide spot checks to strengthen compliance, support providers, and improve quality and safety.
Mandatory child safety courses 3 & 4 are now available. Educators must complete practice and systems training to strengthen safeguarding culture.
Services must show compliance and quality every day, not just during assessments.
Protected disclosures in NSW childcare safeguard educators, uphold integrity, and strengthen trust in early education services.
Family Day Care educators open their homes to children, balancing care, learning, and hygiene in a smaller, more personal environment than centres. With the release of the Biological Hazards Code of Practice in March 2026, childcare is formally recognised as a biohazard‑exposed workplace.
On 3 March 2026, Safe Work Australia released the Biological Hazards Code of Practice. For the first time, early childhood settings, is explicitly recognised as a workplace exposed to predictable biological hazards, things like bodily fluids, vomit, faecal matter, respiratory droplets, and high‑touch contamination cycles. Learn how it works alongside Staying Healthy in Childcare, with practical examples, incident response steps, and compliance paperwork explained clearly.
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