The Latest Breaking News from Department for Child Protection

SA Department for Child Protection case notes system crashing, putting children at risk, PSA says

South Australian child protection staff say vulnerable children may be at greater risk because the case management system they are using keeps crashing.

ABC News · Mar 8, 2023

Survivor who was sexually abused as child in state care asks SA parliament for apology

A survivor of child sexual abuse is seeking an apology from the South Australian government in state parliament, saying he has endured "nightmarish trauma" for decades.

ABC News · Feb 9, 2023

Child Protection chief executive was not forced out despite department's failures, Premier says

SA Premier Peter Malinauskas has conceded the search for a new Department for Child Protection chief executive "won't necessarily be easy" but insists Cathy Taylor was not forced out.

ABC News · Jan 30, 2023

SA Coroners Court to begin inquest into baby's death in house littered with faeces, rotting food and cockroaches

WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing. An 11-week-old baby known to South Australia's Department for Child Protection died in a squalid and overcrowded house littered with faeces and infested with cockroaches, where drug use and domestic violence took place.

ABC News · Dec 5, 2022

Court hears girl taken by SA Department for Child Protection after gluten intolerance diagnosis was sexually assaulted

Lawyers for two South Australian girls who were removed from their parents over a gluten intolerance tell the District Court that one of them was sexually assaulted while in state care.

ABC News · Oct 24, 2022

Megan Somerville, charged over alleged stabbing of two sons at Wingfield, has 'severe mental illness' according to sister

A mother charged over the alleged stabbing of her two young sons in Adelaide's north-west has "severe" and deteriorating mental illness, according to her sister.

ABC News · Aug 17, 2022

Death of six-year-old Munno Para girl Charlie renews scrutiny of South Australia's child protection system

A six-year-old girl's death following suspected neglect brings fresh scrutiny to South Australia's child protection system as her mum tells local media she had asked for help, but not received it.

ABC News · Jul 23, 2022

SA parents sue the state over daughters' removal, as the case of Charlie remains in the spotlight

As the South Australian child protection system comes under fire over the death of six-year-old Charlie, the parents of two girls taken into care for a gluten allergy are suing the state government claiming they were illegally removed.

ABC News · Jul 21, 2022

Grant Stevens cautions speculation as investigation continues into death of Charlie, 6, from Munno Para

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says people should consider the family of a six-year-old girl who died from suspected neglect as police arrive at the home to conduct a forensic sweep. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the images and names of people who have died.

ABC News · Jul 20, 2022

SA parents with children under care of Department for Child Protection lose bids to prevent them getting COVID-19 vaccine

A series of South Australian court judgements refuses bids by parents of children in state care to prevent their offspring getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

ABC News · Jun 21, 2022