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Proposed sweeping changes to South Australian adoption laws could breach human rights standards and prevent children and their birth parents from being heard in court, adoption and child welfare groups have warned.
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An independent inquiry has found that South Australia’s only state-funded support service for rape and sexual assault victims has experienced “capacity issues”, with at least one vulnerable girl turned away in the past year – but SA Health insists that no-one was denied support.
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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.
UPDATED: Children in state care are being looked after in government offices instead of at purpose-built residential care homes due to ongoing staffing shortages within the Child Protection Department, the public sector union claims.
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.
