Queensland child safety officers say they cannot keep up with the 'untenable' workload, with figures showing 58 children already known to the department died in one year.
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The department said an extra 450 staff had been employed since 2015 and there would be another 196 brought on over the next four years. Ms Budge managed multiple offices in the state's south-west and said it was commonly discussed that the reported numbers appeared inaccurate. The Together Union said it understands a common way for service centres to make up shortfalls in the funding of positions was to hold some vacant.
It did not respond to a specific question about how the average was calculated and whether vacant positions were included. "It doesn't mean that the child is actually being visited or the appropriate work has been done with that child." Child safety officer Rebecca Hocking has told ABC Investigations that she is speaking out because she believes "untenable" workloads could put more children — and workers — at risk of harm."When I've been overloaded, my greatest fear is that a child could die or be seriously harmed … because there simply wasn't the capacity to do everything that was required to keep the child safe," she said.
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