“They won’t need a warrant,” Clare said. “They won’t need the police to come with them when they’re investigating fraud in childcare centres.”

“There’s a whole bunch of things that we need to do, and this work will never end,” he said. “There are always going to be more things that we need to do here because there’s always going to be people who are going to try and break through the net to try to do the dastardly things that we’ve seen other people do.”

Education Minister Jason Clare said early childhood education ministers would discuss the use of CCTV cameras at centres when they meet next month. Source: AAP / Dominic Lipinski/PA

Clare also said that early education ministers would discuss the installation of CCTV cameras at childcare centres when they meet next month, following the announcement by childcare chain Goodstart Early Learning that it would install them across its 653 centres.