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Senior youth workers fear the safety of children in residential care homes is being compromised by chronic understaffing and worker stress, with the public sector union claiming 150 shifts went uncovered by the Child Protection Department over a six-week period last year.
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The State Government has launched a judicial review into the Department for Child Protection’s reporting protocols after it was revealed the Child Protection Minister was kept in the dark about the sexual abuse of two 13-year-old girls in state care.
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Parents of chronically-ill children should be assessed if health or child protection services raise concerns about their childrearing capacity, a state government committee has recommended following the premature death of a girl with a chronic health condition who was subject to multiple child protection notifications.
More than two years after her appointment, the State Government has finally moved to allow South Australia’s inaugural Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People to investigate “pressing systemic issues” facing Indigenous youth.
Over 180 children in state care were victims or at risk of alleged sexual assault last year, the Guardian for Children has revealed, amid concerns there are “serious systemic gaps and failings” in the Child Protection Department’s detection of abuse.
The Child Protection Department has stopped housing at-risk children in what advocates have described as the most unsafe and least therapeutic forms of care, but concerns remain about the welfare of children who might “languish” under the replacement system.
The head of the Child Protection Department has refused to reveal which of her staffers knew about the abuse case of a 13-year-old girl in state care who fell pregnant to a pedophile, saying she doesn’t want to “name and shame” and that no disciplinary action has been taken.
