<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Education Minister Jason Clare has rejected calls to ban men from working in the childcare sector in light of allegations against accused paedophile Joshua Dale Brown, saying "just cutting blokes out altogether is not going to be the solution".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brown is accused of committing 70 offences against eight children at a childcare centre in Melbourne, prompting a mass health response that saw about 2000 children tested for infectious diseases.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/joshua-dale-brown-alleged-childcare-paedophile/fa6b56a1-155d-436d-b038-7864509e11bc" rel="" target="_blank" title="list of his known workplaces has grown"><span>list of his known workplaces has grown</span></a><span> in the past day, after childcare provider G8 Education and investigators notified families that the 26-year-old had worked at five additional centres.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/cop-who-held-partner-as-he-died-confronts-shooter-in-court/f09d6d39-a376-4983-b9dc-c771b93fedd5" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Cop who held partner as he died confronts shooter in court</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Clare told reporters today that the new details reaffirmed the need for a national register or national database of all registered childcare workers.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If we build this the right way, it helps us to identify or prompt regular red flags when someone is moving for the wrong reason," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Clare said the government would fast-track child safety reforms to "make the system better, make it fairer and, importantly, safer" when parliament sits from Tuesday, including laws that would cut funding to childcare centres that are not up to standard.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/joshua-dale-brown-updates-education-minister-says-cutting-blokes-out-of-childcare-sector-isnt-the-answer/d7d10357-fa44-475c-ba41-b821f92eb6bf" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He, however, dismissed any suggestion that men should not be allowed to work at childcare centres and said the National Child Safety Review and the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse did not recommend banning them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We know what we need to do here," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In none of the reports do they recommend this but they recommend the register and national mandatory safety training, so that the 99.9 per cent of people who work in our centres who are good, honest people who love our kids and care for them and educate our kids, have the skills they need to identify if the person that is up to no good.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"But just cutting blokes out altogether is not going to be the solution."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/mark-latham-domestic-abuse-allegations-response/2ede09a3-b9ae-4435-8ebc-0714200ecc2a" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Mark Latham denies shocking allegations of domestic abuse</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Clare added that "just identifying one gender" is not the way to make sure children are cared for and safe.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He previously revealed that his best friend's daughter had been caught up in the alleged "sickening and serious" childcare abuse in Melbourne, conceding that more needed to be done.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"One of my little guys is in childcare right now, and every educator out there that's seeing this is angry and furious as well," he told </span><em><span>Today </span></em><span>earlier this month.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The responsibility rests with me as well as every other educator in the country, to make sure that we make our centres safer than they are today."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Yesterday, Victoria Police said Brown had worked at four additional child care centres in the first update to his known workplaces since they revealed he had been charged on July 1.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>G8 Education also said yesterday that Brown had worked at one more childcare centre. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Investigations remain ongoing as health authorities work with the families of children who attended childcare centres while he worked there. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Support is available from the</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>at</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/" title="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)</span></strong></a><strong><span>.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking 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