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Ethan James

Child abuse risk at detention centre 'live and current'

Ashley Youth Detention Centre and Launceston General Hospital were focuses of a child abuse inquiry. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

Tasmania's government is still working on a concrete plan to close an embattled youth detention centre where child abuse is described as an active risk, conceding it will take years to shutter the facility.

A final report of an inquiry into state government responses to child sexual abuse allegations has called for the Ashley Youth Detention Centre to be shut as soon as possible.

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