Trump administration freezes child care funds over fraud schemes
The Trump administration has said it is freezing child care funds to all states until they provide more…
Director of Minnesota day care featured in YouTube video on fraud responds
On Dec. 16, 2025, security footage shows various people throughout the day dropping off young children at the…
Trump administration says it’s freezing child care funds to Minnesota
President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Tuesday that it is freezing child care funds to Minnesota and demanding…
The ABC’s explosive childcare investigations began with an email
It began with an email. An academic sounding the alarm about the rise of large private operators in…
Children withdrawn from Hopetoun day care after allegations against senior employee’s husband
Several parents in a small mining town on WA’s south coast have pulled their children out of the…
Humpty Doo Community and Child Care Centre and three workers charged after death of toddler Ebony Thompson
An Australian childcare centre and three staff have been charged over the death of Ebony Thompson in an…
Head Start centers face closure during government shutdown
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for…
Australia’s scandal-ridden childcare sector is a legacy of the ‘golden age’ of reform
Professor Deborah Brennan, one of Australia’s leading social policy researchers, issued this warning to federal senators in 2009…
NT coroner rules Ebony Thompson’s death in fence accident at childcare centre was ‘preventable’
The death of a toddler who became trapped in looped-top fencing at an Australian childcare centre was “preventable”,…
Hundreds of cases of child-on-child abuse are the fresh childcare system horror
Parents are demanding answers from centre operators after their children were allegedly sexually abused by other children while…
Australia’s crumbling childcare safeguards put kids at risk. How can parents make sure they’re safe?
The reality of Australia’s childcare industry has the makings of every parent’s worst nightmare: a system designed to…
Paedophiles exploiting Australia’s broken childcare system as safeguards crumble
Paedophiles have infiltrated Australia’s $22 billion childcare industry by exploiting lax regulation, piecemeal oversight and glaring staffing inadequacies,…