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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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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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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.
Parents who permanently adopt children from state care could be paid an allowance under a new State Government policy to curb the growing number of children in the child protection system.
