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Residential care costs could blow out to $7b a year

Unless there is immediate reform, residential care for vulnerable children could cost taxpayers $7 billion a year, the leading safety body warns.

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Indigenous kids in focus for 'broken' care system probe

The number of Indigenous youths in out-of-home care and the youth justice system will form a key part of an inquiry into a troubled child-safety system.

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'Forgotten children': state care failings scrutinised

Advocates have welcomed a state's child safety investigation but fear recommendations will fall on deaf ears, ensuring some kids will remain "forgotten".

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'Living in cardboard box': child deaths under review

A report into dozens of child deaths has indicated kids were being lost in a state's residential care system that had "forgotten how to care".

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Inquiry launched into 'failures' of child protection

The failures of a state's child protection and working-with-children checks will be probed following the jailing of one of Australia's worst pedophiles.

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'Treat us like humans': rise in out-of-home care kids

A report has called for urgent change after finding one state has up to four times as many children in residential care than others.

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Childrens Court media access, detention scrutinised

A parliamentary hearing has heard a history of inaccurate reporting should disallow some media organisations access to Queensland Childrens Court cases.

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Assaults, isolation and deprivation: what life is like at Cairns watch house for children and staff

Exclusive: Rare photo and staff testimonies paint bleak picture of Queensland lockup where situation is said to have reached ‘a tipping point’

The Guardian - AU

NDIA admits missing red flags in case of malnourished brothers found in house with dead father

Senior counsel assisting told royal commission one brother’s 12-month plan was worth $102,000, but only $361 was spent

The Guardian - AU

‘Public anxiety’ no justification to override Human Rights Act on youth crime laws, Queensland MPs told

Human rights commissioner Scott McDougall warns against making breach of bail an offence for children at tense parliamentary committee hearing

The Guardian - AU

Children held in Queensland watch houses for almost 40 days, review ordered into escalating crisis

The mother of a 17-year-old describes the impact on her son of the 31 days he spent detained in a watch house cell intended for stays of up to two days.

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Australians urged to ditch ‘tough on crime’ mindset for youth justice as it does not work

As Queensland cracks down on young offenders, experts fear ill-informed public sentiment is influencing policy

The Guardian - AU

Queensland tops nation for child detention and youth repeat offenders, Productivity Commission data reveals

More than half of the Queensland children released from supervision in 2019-20 offended again within 12 months, according to figures just published by the Productivity Commission.

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Report shows 69 children known to Queensland's child protection system died between 2021-2022

A report finds 69 children who were known to the child protection system died between 2021 and 2022, an increase from 53 children the year before.

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Nearly a quarter of sudden unexpected deaths in Queensland infants occur in homes known to child protection, report finds

Of the more than 600 cases registered in Queensland between 2004 and 2019, about 24 per cent involved families known to the Department of Children, new research shows.

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Mother says 13yo under care of child protection 'sexually abused by paedophiles and addicted to ice'

A Queensland mother describes the "soul-destroying" ordeal of her teenage daughter being sexually abused by paedophiles and becoming addicted to ice while she was under the care of the Department of Child Safety.

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Queensland child commission, advocates call for use of spit hoods on minors to be banned

Queensland's Family and Child Commission says it's time to stamp out the practice, after the revelation that a hood was used on a child as recently as seven months ago.

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