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Hansard Transcripts

11 July 2007
Estimates Committee B—Child Safety 11 Jul 2007

In Attendance
Hon. D Boyle, Minister for Child Safety
Mr G Carlyon, Senior Policy Advisor to the Minister for Child Safety

Department of Child Safety
Ms N Deeth, Director-General (Acting)
Ms K Mandla, Deputy Director-General (Acting)
Ms D Mulkerin, Executive Director, Child Safety Services Division Committee

For a copy of this transcript, click on link below, 'search' for 'Dept. Child Safety' in Hansards
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/

Children Deserve Higher Priority

Jann Stuckey MP, Shadow Minister for Child Safety has today called for Child Affected Hearings to be given priority and for delays to be avoided.

“It is becoming obvious the child protection system is not adequately supporting children who have already suffered extreme trauma at the hands of abusers.
“I have recently had complaints to my office about children who were sexually abused being strung along and having to wait out unnecessary delays before their hearing.

Government Neglects Children’s Health

Wednesday, 11 July 2007

Shadow Minister for Child Safety and former paediatric nurse, Jann Stuckey MP has today criticised the Government for failing the wellbeing of children in its care by not supplying Child Health Passports. These passports track inherent health problems of children at risk and have to date revealed some serious medical problems.

Government Drags Feet on Child Protection Reform

Wednesday, 25 July 2007

A Crime and Misconduct Commission report into child safety has revealed the Beattie Government has failed to fully implement a raft of child protection measures tabled almost three years ago.

Queensland Coalition Shadow Minister for Child Safety Jann Stuckey said details from the CMC report, released today, showed the Department of Child Safety had failed to implement reforms in some of the portfolio’s most crucial areas.

Scouring MySpace using "child abuse" in the search engine

Thismorning I was surfing MySpace, trying to see what I could find on MySpace to do with child abuse or anything like that... Any other MySpace user that fitted with our cause basically.

I stumbled upon a forum post which stated that the UN was given a report at some point showing that 600,000 children in Australia were victims of child abuse.

It took me a couple of reads to get through it. I was really ticked off to begin with, so I couldn't read it properly. When I went back to it, I nearly fell off my chair.

 

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