Children as young as 12 reported allegations of sexual assault, drug use and abandonment in motel rooms without close supervision.
Children as young as 12 have reported being sexually assaulted and exposed to rampant drug use while in emergency accommodation, in a series of testimonies in which life in state care was described as like being a dog in a cage.
The accounts, given by children as young as 10, are detailed in an interim report from the advocate’s ongoing special commission of inquiry into so-called alternative care arrangements , a form of emergency accommodation designed as a last resort for at-risk children in NSW. Under emergency care, children are placed in hotels, motels, caravan parks and short-term rental accommodation where they are supervised by unaccredited staff from labour-hire companies.
A third said they had been left “on my own around like full-grown adults on drugs, homeless people, people with mental illnesses, like it was disgusting”.
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