Tasmania's education department secretary has told a child sexual abuse inquiry of a "mosaic of approaches" that were used to investigate historical complaints against teachers.
A commission of inquiry, examining state government responses to allegations of abuse in the public service, has heard survivors' struggles being believed and of abusive teachers being moved schools.
The inquiry was on Wednesday told 32 state department education staff had been stood down in the past 12 to 18 months over "historical allegations".
