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G8 Education, Australia's billion-dollar listed childcare empire, has become embroiled in a damning document dump revealing dozens of its centres in NSW have exposed children to serious safety risks including toxic chemicals, inappropriate discipline, yelling, children going missing and disturbing cases of alleged sexual assaults.

The incidents were detailed in hundreds of pages of documents released by the NSW Department of Education in response to a parliamentary order.

The revelations form part of a major ABC investigation into the $20 billion childcare industry that uncovered a sector marked by systemic failures, secrecy, and a rising number of serious incidents at some of the country's largest for-profit providers.

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