Tasmanian Government has paid $3.68m in workers compensation to youth detention centre staff since 2015
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:08am
Since 2015 there have been 95 workers compensation claims made by employees at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in northern Tasmania.
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The Tasmanian Government has forked out millions of dollars in workers compensation to staff members at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in the past five years, documents obtained through a Right to Information request show.
Key points:
The youth detention centre has come under increased scrutiny due to claims of understaffing and alleged abuse by workers
The total cost of workers compensation claims at the centre over the past five years is more than $3.5 million