Too many reports, not enough action for vulnerable children in NSW
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By Julie Hourigan Ruse
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Almost everyone in the NSW not-for-profit sector charged with protecting our most vulnerable children can name where they were in 2008 when they first read Justice Woodâs report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services.
It followed multiple harrowing cases of children known to the then Department of Community Services (now Department of Communities and Justice) dying within weeks of each other.
Justice James Wood inquired into child protection in the wake of shocking cases of neglect.