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Federal working with children check system could take a year to set up, attorney general says

Labor under pressure to overhaul checks system for childcare workers, which the prime minister described as ‘hopeless’A national working with children’s check system could take up to 12 months to set up, the federal attorney-general said, as Anthony Albanese decried the current industry safeguards as “hopeless”.Ahead of a meeting of the nation’s attorneys-general on Friday, Michelle Rowland said the group’s “most immediate and urgent” priority was to create a system that ensured those working with children who were “banned in one” state were “banned in all”. Continue reading...

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