Child Protection Blow-out Revealed in Progress Report
Friday, 30 September 2011 17:53 | 
Written by Jacquie | 
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Jacquie Petrusma
Shadow Minister for Children
Shadow Minister for Human Services
Jeremy Rockliff MP
Shadow Minister for Health
Friday 30 September, 2011
Child protection has blown-out as revealed in the latest DHHS progress report snuck out by the Minister late today under the cover of the AFL grand final.
The figures reveal:
" A massive increase in unallocated child protection investigations from 0 to 36;
" Yet another increase in the number of children in out of home care - now 963, up from 893;
" A 17 per cent increase in the number of notifications referred for investigation.
Last week's Auditor General's report into children in out of home care showed that Tasmanian children are already falling through the cracks and budget cuts, with more children to care for, we will see children put at risk.
