❓ A parliamentary question highlights concerns about the safety of children known to have been harmed, with nearly one in ten experiencing subsequent harm within a year, questioning the reasons for this decline and government actions to improve the situation.
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The 2026-27 Budget Papers note that indicators relating to children and young people needing protection are safe from abuse and harm show that the estimated actual is below the budget in 2025-26 and below the 2024-24 actual:
(a) Is the Minister aware that the indicator "proportion of children not subject to a subsequent substantiation of harm within 12 months of a previous substantiation of harm" at 91% indicates that almost one in ten children that the department has investigated and known to have been harmed, are found to have been harmed again, leass than a year later;
(b) Why has the safety of these children under the department's watch decreased;
(c) Is this the result of an increased focus on preventing children from entering care; and
(d) What is the Government doing to ensure this key safety indicator immediately improves?
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(a) Is the Minister aware that the indicator "proportion of children not subject to a subsequent substantiation of harm within 12 months of a previous substantiation of harm" at 91% indicates that almost one in ten children that the department has investigated and known to have been harmed, are found to have been harmed again, leass than a year later;
(b) Why has the safety of these children under the department's watch decreased;
(c) Is this the result of an increased focus on preventing children from entering care; and
(d) What is the Government doing to ensure this key safety indicator immediately improves?
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