Victoria to establish state register of childcare workers within weeks, Jacinta Allan says

Victorian premier Jacinta Allan said a state-based childcare worker register would be established by the end of August. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Victoria’s premier has said childcare regulations have “not worked” and vowed the state’s register of childcare workers will be established within weeks, after revelations that alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown was sacked from multiple centres.

Jacinta Allan on Monday said there was a need to strengthen both state and federal regulations governing the sector.