Can Australia’s new childcare safety policies keep our children safe? The devil is in the details

Questions remain as to how a staff employment history register will be managed and how data collected via mandatory CCTV cameras in childcare centres will be stored. Photograph: AAP

Jason Clare celebrated the meeting as a win.

Standing before the press, the federal education minister revealed he had hammered out a national agreement to improve safety in childcare services with his state and territory counterparts. “I think the work that we’ve done is going to make a real, meaningful difference,” he said.