Reforms to enhance safety in childcare and early education settings nationwide could be implemented by the end of the year.
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will on Friday announce $37 million in funding towards enhanced national monitoring of working with children checks.
State and territory police databases will be utilised to enable "near real-time" national monitoring of check-holders' criminal history information.
The pilot will be ready for states and territories from the end of December.
It's hoped the fast-tracked system will significantly strengthen safeguards for children and young people.
"We are progressing a co-ordinated and ambitious reform agenda to achieve meaningful consistency across jurisdictions for when a person is suitable to hold a WWCC and when they should be excluded," Ms Rowland said.
Calls for national reforms to the system have been growing since Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown was charged with sexually abusing eight children under the age of two.
Brown was known to have worked at 24 facilities between 2017 and 2025.
The government says significant progress has been made since a crisis meeting of federal, state and territory education ministers in August.
Five states and territories have since taken steps to ensure that if a person is banned in one jurisdiction, they will be banned across the nation.
The remaining three states and territories are on track to introduce legislation this year.
A national working with children check remains off the cards.
Further work is required to achieve national consistency in how risks are assessed and when individuals are either granted or excluded from receiving working with children checks, Ms Rowland said.
"I look forward to continuing to work with my state and territory counterparts to deliver this ambitious reform agenda and ensure our children and young people are safe from harm," she said.
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