Just a day after the Herald raised the question of the oversight of childcare, fresh revelations about the alleged abuse of children have emerged that confirm the urgency of national reforms to the sector.

One of the charges against Victorian childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown is that he recklessly contaminated goods to cause alarm or anxiety, which relates to allegations he added bodily fluids to children’s food.

The 26-year-old is accused of abusing eight young children at a Point Cook centre between April 2022 and January 2023. His work at 20 Victorian facilities over his eight-year career has sparked the testing of more than 1200 children for sexually transmitted infections.

Joshua Dale Brown, 26, has been accused of child sex abuse.

As horrified parents grapple with the latest scandal at a childcare centre, an abuse survivors’ collective has called for a ban on male........

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