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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.
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.
Child abuse notifications in South Australia have spiked by 77 per cent in the past six years, but the Child Protection Department claims the “worrying” trend is the result of better public awareness – not increased neglect or violence in family homes.
