Beyond Compliance: From Response to Recovery

This full-day, in-person forum brings together early childhood professionals and sector leaders to explore practical solutions and strategic insights around ECEC risk and compliance. Presented by The Sector and supported by Storypark and ChildAware, this event builds on the success of the Connect+ series and offers an intimate, curated space for robust discussion and professional connection.

"Keeping children safe isn't something any of us can do alone. That's why we're proud to support a forum that goes beyond compliance to ask how the sector can build services where children are safe and thriving. It's a conversation we care about at Storypark, and one we want to be part of, alongside the leaders and educators doing this work every day." - Katie Dowle, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Storypark

ABOUT THE FORUM

The past few years have tested early childhood education and care providers like never before. Increased scrutiny, reform, workforce pressures and changing community expectations have challenged even the strongest early learning services and organisations.

But across the sector, providers have also responded. They have strengthened systems, supported teams, rebuilt trust and gained greater clarity about what safe, high quality early learning requires.

The Sector Connect + ECEC Compliance and Risk Forum 2026 is not another conversation about what has gone wrong. It is a full-day, in-person leadership forum focused on what comes next.

The program will examine what happens before, during and after a compliance or risk challenge, including communication with families, workforce confidence, organisational learning, insurance considerations, social media pressure and the rebuilding of trust.

At its core, the Forum is anchored in three practical leadership priorities being prevention, response and recovery. It will support early learning services and providers to reflect on their current approach, learn from others and move forward with confidence in a future that is unequivocally child safety led.

This is more than a traditional compliance conference.

It is a practical leadership forum about recovery, confidence and what it really takes to build sustainable, well-governed ECEC organisations in an operating environment that is undeniably in transition.

Join us as we curate and deliver The Sector Connect + ECEC Compliance & Risk Forum in September 2026 in Sydney, NSW.

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