The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has today reported that thousands of child care providers, private schools and other services working with children in Victoria have received an email advising them to ensure they have proper insurance in place in the event that litigation is sought against them for child abuse. The arrangements will apply to approximately 2,400 child care providers and kindergartens in Victoria.

The Queensland Regulatory Authority has updated its list of published enforceable actions, in line with their commitments under Section 270, Regulation 227 of the National Laws and Regulations.

The Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has released a list of five points of awareness for all registered training organisations (RTOs) to be aware of in order to maintain registration.

Less than 5 per cent of education sites across Australia have received epilepsy specific training, exposing children to unnecessarily high levels of risk, Epilepsy Australia (EA) has said.

In a joint statement to the Senate Inquiry into the Federal Government’s ParentsNext program, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and human rights organisations have called for the program to be scrapped, describing the program as “punitive”, and “raising concerns about compliance with Australia’s sex and race discrimination laws”