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Twenty children known to child protection authorities have died in the past year, including six within three months, sparking renewed calls to fix Victoria’s “overstretched” system. Most were aged under two, however, details including their specific ages and circumstances surrounding their deaths have not been made public. Data from the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing shows six children died between July 1 and September 30. Those figures don’t include deaths by suicide.
” The latest quarterly data revealed there were 286 instances of abuse from July 1 to September 30, which includes allegations of physical, sexual, emotional, psychological and financial abuse. A further 224 reports were classified as ‘other incident types’ which included self-harm or suicide attempts, injury, poor care or an absent child, while there were another 70 reports of dangerous or disruptive behaviour.
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