With South Australia's child protection system again under scrutiny, the Malinauskas government is facing questions about what it is doing to ensure the state's most vulnerable don't fall through the cracks.
The state's Public Sector Employment Commissioner will temporarily take over as head of the Child Protection Department, with outgoing chief executive Cathy Taylor leaving the job today and a permanent replacement yet to be named.
The South Australian Government is yet to decide whether to raise the minimum age at which children can be arrested and detained for committing crimes, as Victoria moves to lift the benchmark from 10 to 12 years.
The government says a permanent chief executive is expected to be named in the next two weeks. The current department boss, Cathy Taylor, steps down today three months after announcing her resignation.