The Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor has expressed concerns about the impacts of budget cuts on the state’s Out of Home Care program.
Minister, you were asked in the other place this morning about Tasmania's poor performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 results.
Minister, today you joined around a hundred people at a beautiful ceremony to celebrate 40 years of the Fostering Kinship Carers Association (FKAT).
Information provided to us through right to information states that at 31 March this year, 2105 students were waiting to see a school psychologist.
Children continue to be held in adult prison watch houses despite a clear recommendation from the Custodial Inspector last year
In June last year, the Custodial Inspector released the children in Tasmania's prisons review report.
These are children who are primary school, first year of high school, kept in an adult facility.
As we see this government being tough on crime, as they call it, this is the complete opposite of what we need to be doing for young people.
The children who are your portfolio and policy responsibility, are ending up in the Corrections minister's areas of portfolio and responsibility.
It took a right to information to find out that, shockingly, children were held in adult prison watch houses on 306 occasions in 2025-26.