Premier Jacinta Allan acknowledges the state’s education department failed to listen when children spoke out
Jacinta Allan says the failure to keep children safe in state schools was not only ‘serious and systemic’, as described by the inquiry, but also a ‘failure of morality’.Jacinta Allan says the failure to keep children safe in state schools was not only ‘serious and systemic’, as described by the inquiry, but also a ‘failure of morality’.
“What else can it possibly be when the reputation of the education system was given higher regard than the safety of children?” she said. Once the two processes end in 2026, the government planned to publish the findings and the premier will deliver a formal apology in parliament.
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