A major Queensland childcare provider has revealed a coloured sand product containing asbestos is used at several of its centres.

C&K, who operate 320 childcare and kindergartens across the state, emailed parents on Friday evening to tell them a product, Educational Colours Rainbow Sand, had been recalled and was present at some of its centres. Kadink Sand and Creatistics Coloured Sand have also been recalled.

It follows a day when a school in Brisbane’s west was closed after one of the products was found, and campuses across Queensland were combed for the play items that could have been on the grounds for up to five years.

The Australian consumer watchdog issued a recall notice on Wednesday evening covering the brands of children’s play sand it suspected could contain the hazardous ma

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