Four Brimbank day care services are among the latest to be shut down or suspended over a series of alleged rorts involving taxpayer money.
Haange Family Day Care (Braybrook), Just Like Home Family Day Care (Derrimut) and Little Angels Family Day Care (Sunshine) have had their licences cancelled.
Sunshine West’s Abiel Family Day Care has had its licence suspended for failing to comply with a range of conditions.
The breaches have been revealed by the federal Department of Education and Training on its Child Care Enforcement Action Register, which details services that have been the subject of a sanction, suspension or closure.
The list was first made public in January and is updated each quarter.
Haange Family Day Care was closed for “remitting amounts that cannot be passed on” and failing to provide reports, while Little Angels Family Day Care was found to have provided false documents and “payment of fee reductions obtained by fraud”.
Just Like Home Family Day Care was found to be charging more than the allowed amount, as well as failing to provide reports.
Abiel Family Day Care remains suspended for failing to provide reports, failing to notify authorities of enrolments and for exceeding the number of children allowed to be enrolled at the centre.
Victoria remains a hot-spot for family day care providers being subjected to serious sanctions. The state accounts for 27 of the 53 services across the country to land in trouble in the past three months.
Federal Education and Training Minister Simon Birmingham said the government would not tolerate those who sought to rip off taxpayers with illegitimate claims.
“Those dodgy family day care providers who circumvent the rules no longer have anywhere to hide,” he said.
Mr Birmingham said ongoing enforcement efforts since the beginning of 2014 had stopped about $1.8 billion of taxpayer money going to dodgy providers.
The sanctioned local centres could not be contacted for comment.
