00:01These parents can't be identified.
00:04Their daughter was one of Ashley Griffith's 69 young victims.
00:08The childcare worker sexually abused children over 20 years in Queensland and Italy.
00:15We're subject to three police reports, three regulatory authority reports
00:19and six complaints to childcare management.
00:22Information that could have stopped Griffith wasn't shared.
00:25Between childcare centres, across borders or between government departments.
00:30We can't keep operating at state and territory level
00:33because that's where these people exploit the system and the gaps.
00:40In 2015, a Royal Commission recommended Australia's eight separate working with children checks
00:46be unified and consistent.
00:48That's never happened.
00:50Instead, after the ABC exposed multiple childcare abuse scandals,
00:54governments agreed to join a $37 million database to share police information about people working with children.
01:02We recognise that this is an area of the highest priority.
01:07The database, called the National Continuous Checking Capability,
01:11won't include intelligence like parent or employee complaints.
01:15And the ABC can reveal it won't be fully functional until 2029, at least three years away.
01:21And cracks are already showing.
01:24The ABC understands New South Wales will wait until it sees the final model before signing up.
01:30We're ten steps behind the people that are seeking to harm our children.
01:34The Queensland Family and Children's Commissioner says he wants a response like counter-terrorism,
01:40where governments intelligence gather to stop crimes before they happen.
01:43We're not going to protect children by continuing to tinker with recommendations that are now ten years old.
01:50These parents say the three year wait for a database is an insult.
01:55How many kids is the Australian Government going to allow to continue to be abused by sitting on their hands
02:02and doing nothing?
02:02So, all I think that's what really seems to happen to be repeated."
02:06Can you read this about them?
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