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Claire Campbell

Chronic understaffing in SA's child protection department led to reports being closed, inquest hears

A coronial inquest into the death of a baby who died in squalor has heard it was a "horrible reality" that the state's child protection workers "more often than not" had to close abuse notifications without investigation — against the law — due to chronic understaffing.

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