Twice a week, Ben Bradshaw drops his young son off at a Sydney childcare centre before heading off to work. Like thousands of parents and carers across Australia, the 40-year-old had always been confident that the staff have his child’s best interests at heart. But in recent months, that trust in the childcare system has been “eroded”, the father-of-two says, after several high-profile cases of alleged sexual and physical abuse at centres across Australia.
