Doesn't Oversee Child Safety

The Department of Community Services has been in the headlines a lot the past few weeks and for that matter months.

Case after case of child abuse, squalid living conditions, deaths and misery. Ever time the excuse is something like "we didn't think it was that bad" or "we don't have enough staff."

The Department is a failure, pure and simple. It doesn't do its job and for every solid worker there seems to be an equal amount or more slackers. The whole Department needs to be shaken up from top to bottom and if necessary new laws and regulations put into place and enforced so that the children are actually protected.

This is a failure by both State and Federal governments to act for the benefit of their constituents.