2026-10-26 · ABC News (AU)
🔮 After months of mounting concerns, Spark pulled her son out and used her skills as an auditor to dig into the centre and the chain behind it.
"If I just looked up who owns the centre, done a little bit of digging, realised the number of enforcement actions, realised the level of profits being generated, I wouldn't have sent him there, but I just didn't know," she said.
Little Zak's is one of the country's fastest growing childcare chains, generating $142 million in revenue and $17 million in profit in 2025.
The family-owned business also has the highest proportion of centres subject to enforcement action among the country's 26 largest long daycare operators. assertive