Children’s risk-of-harm report ‘not followed’

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MORE than 20,000 reports of children at risk of serious harm were closed because there weren’t enough caseworkers to check up on them, the State Opposition claims.

Opposition Leader John Robertson says the government’s internal data reveals 20,400 reports of children at risk of serious harm in 2011-12 weren’t followed up because of “competing priorities”.