Compliance focus – offence to subject child to inappropriate conduct

Learn about new legislation introduced to strengthen children’s safety in early childhood education and care in NSW.

All children have the fundamental right to feel safe, valued, respected and supported while attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) in NSW.

The NSW Government has amended the Children (Education and Care Services) National Law (NSW)External link to strengthen protections for every child in ECEC services. Changes introduced as part of recent child safety reforms include new provisions that:

• make it an offence to subject a child being educated and cared for by an ECEC service to ‘inappropriate conduct’
• define what is considered ‘inappropriate conduct’ in an ECEC context.