Shelton Must Review Police Procedures on Child Abuse Investigations
Police Minister, Mark Shelton refused to acknowledge police policies or procedures should be reviewed and changed.
Police Minister, Mark Shelton refused to acknowledge police policies or procedures should be reviewed and changed.
A significant part of the Estimates with Mr Jaensch this year dealt with that terrible, unsafe place that is Ashley Youth Detention Centre.
It is a gutsy move to establish a commission of inquiry, particularly for a Government that has a streak of control-freakery about it.
It took three months after the initial complaint for James Griffin's Working with Vulnerable People registration to be revoked.
At that point, child exploitation material had been found at Mr Griffin's home, including what the Coroner described as 'self-generated images'.
In July, whilst a CIB became aware that Mr Griffin was employed at the LGH and then at that point made steps to actually brief the hospital at the end of July.
The TLRI final report of September 2003 makes five recommendations for legislative amendment of the Commissions of Inquiry Act.
The announcement of a Commission of Inquiry into the sexual abuse of children and young people in the care of the State is both welcome and overdue.
Only a commission of inquiry can properly uncover what has happened and the systemic abuse, as well as the links between different departments.
We are really only just beginning to scratch the surface of a much deeper wound as it relates to the treatment of children in some places in Tasmania.