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Samantha Lock

Disability Royal Commission hears of preventable care failings

The case of two boys left naked in a room has laid bare agency failings to protect disabled people.

A child protection officer saw a malnourished teenage boy gnawing on a dog bone in a case of abuse and neglect that lays bare government agency failings to protect young people with disabilities, a federal inquiry has heard.

The Disability Royal Commission on Wednesday heard that child protection workers, education officials and police in Queensland had failed to protect the boy and his brother who were left naked in a bedroom with the door handles removed.

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