Category: Child Protection and Advocacy
‘Horrifying’: Alarm over NSW’s child protection failures – Sydney Morning Herald
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size A scathing report has found the NSW government is failing to meet any of its child protection responsibilities, with children cycling through temporary and emergency accommodation and the department not properly responding to serious allegations of abuse. The NSW Ombudsman’s report, which has been labelled as “horrifying” by child welfare advocates, is the fourth damning report in as many months into the Department of Communities and Justice’s child protection services. The Ombudsman found 75 per cent of children reported to be at…
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