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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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The State Government will take back $3 million in bikeway funding granted to Adelaide City Council and spend it on other transport projects in the CBD, after the council last night voted to scrap long-touted plans for an east-west cycling route.
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EXCLUSIVE | An Adelaide couple is suing the State Government for the “unlawful removal” of their daughters by child protection workers, claiming the girls were wrongly taken from them because authorities believed the parents had “fabricated” a gluten intolerance condition.
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.
