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Fraser Barton

'Living in cardboard box': child deaths under review

Child Death Review Boardchair Luke Twyford says the design of the system in wrong. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

Living out of a cardboard box, a child had no place to shower, no clean clothes and no food to eat when he died on the streets.

The homeless boy was among 70 child deaths probed in a report that indicated children were being lost in Queensland's residential care system that had "forgotten how to care".

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