High-risk childcare centres will be forced to publicly display compliance breaches in an area parents can see, while penalties for offences will increase by 900 per cent, under sweeping childcare reforms to be introduced into parliament on Wednesday.

The NSW government has announced major changes to childcare legislation after a series of scandals raised concerns about the sector’s lack of transparency, including high-profile safety incidents that happened without parents’ knowledge .

The regulator will be required to publish more information about high-risk services, after the Herald revealed one in six NSW childcare services hold a “secret” rating of high risk or very high risk – but families at these centres would have no idea.

While parents will not be able to see the regulat

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