NSW government urged to hit pause on childcare reform by state’s not-for-profit providers

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26 September 2025

Childcare centre bosses want the reforms put on ice. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard
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Some of NSW’s largest not-for-profit childcare providers have banned together to call on the NSW government to hit pause on sweeping reforms that would increase penalties for large providers by 900 per cent and tighten safety rules.

Chief executives from KU Children’s Services, Goodstart Early Learning and more appeared before a parliamentary inquiry on Friday into Labor’s proposed reforms of the childcare sector that came in response to high-profile abuse cases.

KU Children’s Services CEO, Christine Legg speaking alongside other leading national not for profit providers, “Our preferred position remains that NSW early childhood education law continues to be part of the national scheme, and the national law continues to be refined and even reflected in state law,”.

Read the full story here in The Australian 

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