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South Australian child protection authorities have engaged in misconduct including forging foster carer signatures and threatening to remove carers’ biological children, a state government-commissioned inquiry has been told.
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South Australia has the highest rate of separating brothers and sisters in care in the country, research shows, prompting child protection advocates and the minister in charge to call for sweeping reform to keep families together.
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UPDATED: Child Protection Minister Katrine Hildyard says the state government has accepted all the recommendations of a Coroner’s report into the 2016 murder of two Adelaide children and will set up a review following strong criticism of department inaction.
South Australia’s new child protection minister has vowed to increase scrutiny by pledging $1.8 million to reinstate a key watchdog role, in a move welcomed by the Guardian for Children despite concerns about the level of funding.
South Australian child protection authorities “pressured” a mother to hand over custody of her four-day-old baby to her estranged partner, in a process the state’s Ombudsman has described as “flawed” and inconsistent with a United Nations convention.
The state government has appointed a leading child protection advocate to head an inquiry into foster and kinship care in South Australia.
Over half a million dollars is being spent training child protection staff to better detect and prevent child grooming and exploitation after a series of recent court cases exposed a spate of abuse involving vulnerable children in residential care.
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