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The childcare companies trading safety for profits

Mar 16, 2025
15:17

It’s a $20 billion industry charged with the care of almost one and a half million Australian children. 

But is the child care sector being run by the wrong people? Can parents trust their kids will be safe when they drop them off each day? 

Today, Adele Ferguson on her Four Corners investigation into how profits are often put ahead of care and how some centres are not what they seem. 

Editor's note: Adele's investigation 'Betrayal of Trust' goes to air on Monday 17 March at 8.00pm on ABC TV and ABC iview

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Adele Ferguson, ABC investigative reporter

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