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A mentally-ill child detained at Adelaide’s youth detention centre was locked in a room for long periods of time and handcuffed when in common areas because staff didn’t know how to provide proper care, a damning report to parliament has revealed.
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Former AnglicareSA CEO Peter Sandeman has been appointed to the South Australian Housing Authority as a strategic adviser.
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The State Government will make 100 vacant public housing flats available to rough sleepers who were put up in motels during July’s seven-day lockdown, but concerns remain about 200 more households who were also placed in temporary accommodation.
A State Government move to narrow the eligibility criteria for social housing has been described as a “distraction” by housing advocates, who say the diminishing number of Housing Authority properties are already limited to the state’s most vulnerable.
Members of more than 300 households impacted by homelessness or domestic violence have been accommodated in motels during South Australia’s seven-day lockdown, with the State Government promising to transition as many of those as possible into stable housing.
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.
