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Child safety reform national consultation

 
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National survey is now open

Have your say today! Share your feedback on further reforms by completing the online survey before Tuesday 28 April 2026.

Learn more and complete the Child Safety Reform Consultation 2026 survey.

Please note, this survey will be hosted nationally from the Queensland Department of Education website.

​​Education Ministers have agreed to further child safety reforms. National consultation is now underway to gather perspectives on implementation of these agreed reforms.

Have your say on implementation of the 7 reform areas:

  1. Supervision practices
  2. Ensure the organisation of educators across the service supports children's safety, learning development and ensures adequate supervision, and strengthen sector capability to understand the role of supervision in promoting children's safety.

  3. Increasing transparency for families
  4. Access to robust and accessible information on the quality and safety of education and care services to empower families to make informed decisions about the service they choose to send their children to.

  5. Persons with management or control (PMC) fitness and propriety
  6. Broaden the range of regulatory responses to ensure PMCs are, and remain, fit and proper to be involved in the provision of an education and care service.

  7. Suspension, supervision and training directions and related information sharing provisions
  8. Bring the application of directions in line with existing approaches under the National Law.

  9. Increased whistleblower protections
  10. Create a safe environment for individuals to raise concerns when children's safety is at risk and safeguard those who act in the best interests of children.

  11. Updating quality ratings for approved providers during/immediately following an investigation
  12. Enable regulatory authorities to update the status of a quality rating during or immediately following an investigation. This aims to increase transparency for families.

  13. Safer fencing
  14. Improve service safety and increase awareness of safety risks associated with fencing in centre-based services.

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More information about the reforms

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Last updated 14 April 2026