Victorian coroner to investigate deaths of children who were repeatedly reported as at-risk

The Victorian coroner is to investigate how child protection handled reports made about four children, which in some cases occurred on as many as six occasions, before they died. Photograph: panic_attack/Getty Images/iStockphoto

The Victorian coroner will hold an inquest into the deaths of four children who had been the subject of multiple reports to the state’s child protection authorities before they died.

The unrelated children, aged between six months and 13 years old, died between 2015 and 2017, documents before the court show. The children cannot be identified for legal reasons.