18 December 2025
Prioritising child safety is not optional. The safety, rights, and best interests of every child are our highest priority and our paramount consideration in operational decisions.
As Australia’s largest providers of early childhood education and care, ELACCA members are united in our commitment to prioritise child safety.
We commit to:
- working closely with Commonwealth, state and territory governments to implement evidence-based reforms across Australia,
- delivering mandatory child safety training from February 2026 across all services without exception,
- ensuring every educator completes mandatory child safety training in paid time, and we will work directly with our teams and families to deliver it in the most effective way possible. We welcome the Commonwealth Government’s support for training to be conducted during CCS hours, and we will work with state and territory governments to enable the best support for other service types,
- supporting our qualified and capable educators. Together, we employ more than 57,000 early childhood education professionals. Their vigilance, professionalism, and daily commitment to child safety and wellbeing are critical to the protection of children and their rights,
- ensuring that all services build positive child-safe cultures in recognition of the fact that child safety requires more than compliance or minimum standards, and
- ensuring that child safety, rights and best interests are visible at the core of governance and strategy in our member organisations.
