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Frontline child protection workers in South Australia will be taught to be more considerate and sensitive towards Aboriginal families who have been impacted by the Stolen Generations, in a bid to slow the number of kids entering state care.
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Children in state care who end up in the youth justice system are sometimes kept in detention days after they are granted release because child protection authorities have no homes for them to go to, according to South Australia’s Guardian for Children.
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A statutory officer has reserved her right to refuse a parliament-sanctioned independent inquiry into the death of a 13-year-old Port Lincoln boy killed when a rubbish truck collected the skip in which he was sleeping, telling MPs the investigation could cause “unintended harm” to two surviving youths.
South Australia’s Guardian for children in state care is once again calling on the Government to provide funding so that she can monitor all allegations of sexual abuse, following the release of a damning report into the Child Protection Department’s reporting protocols.
UPDATED: The State Opposition has ramped up calls for Child Protection Minister Rachel Sanderson to be stood down, following revelations five girls in state care are currently pregnant.
A key state government department’s reporting of abuse is a “mess”, with “fatigued” and “scared” staff unaware of how to properly raise incidents, an inquiry into the mishandling of the shocking sexual abuse of two teenage girls in state care has found.
Today’s breaking news from South Australia, the nation and abroad. SA records no new COVID-19 cases as it closes in on one million tests, and the government has released concept designs for the $44 million Memorial Drive redevelopment.
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