Overview

• Angel’s Paradise owner John Tanios acknowledged hiring staff without Working With Children checks and infants eating scraps from the floor.
• NSW regulators shut the Wagga Wagga centre after recording 23 breaches, and Tanios says he has re-registered under a new name and is appealing the closure.
• Findings cited infants confined to high chairs as behaviour management and failures to report child-protection concerns, alongside parent accounts of injuries and poor hygiene.
• The broadcast also detailed the Victorian case of educator Joshua Brown, who faces 73 charges over alleged abuse at a G8-run centre, with families pursuing civil action in court.
• Federal Education Minister Jason Clare announced $189 million for more spot checks, tougher penalties and a national worker register, warning services that fail standards risk losing funding.