Government rushed reforms after child safety scandals

Last month, we saw governments scrambling to fast-track long-overdue reforms to improve the safety and wellbeing of children .

This followed widespread community outrage over recent allegations and media exposés of shocking abuse and system failures in our childcare centres.

The response from our political leaders was a flurry of new commitments. Attorneys-General pledged to strengthen working with children checks.

Victoria committed to implementing all 22 recommendations from its rapid child safety review. And then we saw the Australian government and state and territory education ministers committing to collaborate on the biggest child safety reforms in our history.

These strong commitments are welcome, but they are long overdue, and government leaders have been forced to admit t