Here is what needs to be done to address Australia’s childcare abuse crisis - and politicians can’t say they didn’t know

Education ministers need to properly tackle the issues, rather than tinker around the edges, leaving difficult, expensive reforms on the shelf in favour of quick fixes. Photograph: Daria Nipot/Getty Images/iStockphoto

On Friday, state education ministers will meet Jason Clare to discuss the thorny and critically important issues facing the country’s childcare sector.

There could not be a more significant moment for the conversations that we are having about the safety of the more than 1 million Australian children who attend childcare.