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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent

Victoria will fast-track new child safety laws as part of a system ‘overhaul’. Here’s what we know

Victoria Jay Weatherill Sonya Kilkenny Pamela White Deborah Glass Jacinta Allan Jason Clare Lizzie Blandthorn
Children drawing at childcare centre
New laws expected to pass Victoria’s parliament this week would implement an agreement between state and federal governments that those working with children who were ‘banned in one’ jurisdiction were ‘banned in all’. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Authorities in Victoria will have the power to immediately suspend an individual’s working with children check during an investigation, under new laws to be fast-tracked through the parliament this week.

The premier, Jacinta Allan, said the laws, to be introduced to parliament on Tuesday, were just one part of an “overhaul” of the child safety system in the state, after a review by the former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and the senior bureacrat Pamela White.

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