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21 August 2015

Screening process failing children

AN inconsistent and complex approach by states and territories to running background checks on people wanting to work with children has failed those the schemes are supposed to protect, prompting the royal commission into child sexual abuse to call for sweeping changes.
THE Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse says that an over-reliance on the schemes - known as Working With Children Checks (WWCCs) - can actually be detrimental to children's safety and it has delivered a scathing assessment of efforts by various governments to address the problem.

http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/screening-process-failing-children/story-e6frfku9-1227486796238