Child protection hindered by secrecy and lack of accountability: journalist
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- Category: Child protection statistics
- Created: Friday, 18 November 2016 14:48
- Written by Ben Hills - ABC World Today
The latest statistics on child deaths in New South Wales make for some sobering reading.
The Family and Community Services Child Deaths report has revealed that 79 children died in 2014, despite being known to the state's child protection agencies.
Of the 79, 60 were the subject of a so-called "risk of significant harm report".
Ben Hills is a freelance journalist who conducted an investigation into the death of seven-year-old Levai earlier this year and he analysed 10 years' worth of departmental reports on child deaths.
He argues secrecy and a lack of accountability are at the heart of the problems of the state's child protection problems.
Source : http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4577393.htm
