Queensland's child safety department has been dubbed an 'expensive failure'. Reforming it won't be easy

The challenge is enormous, but the inquiry's report has made clear inaction is not an option for the sake of Queensland's ...

Child safety workers reveal 20-hour delays to report at-risk children

A frontline child safety worker was forced to wait 30 minutes on the phone to lodge concerns about a child before being told ...

Union alleges child safety workers told to bypass laws for flawed IT system

Queensland’s child safety system is structurally incapable of protecting vulnerable kids, with frontline workers allegedly directed to cut corners and bypass legislative safeguards to keep the ...

Serious failures laid bare in Queensland child safety inquiry, amid promise of system overhaul

A report by Queensland's Commission of Inquiry into Child Safety has made 52 recommendations after delivering a scathing ...

Final hearing in Queensland inquiry held as submissions claim child safety complaints were ignored

Final hearings have concluded at Queensland's inquiry into child safety, with a "lengthy" report expected to be delivered to ...
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Babies among children in Queensland's residential care system as major child protection inquiry begins

Queensland's child safety minister has declared she wants fewer kids in the residential care system and says she has even visited facilities looking after babies. A new commission of inquiry probing ...