Amid alarming child safety statistics revealing over 2,800 Queensland children in residential care – including 100 toddlers under five – and a dismal 25% on-time assessment rate, Jason Matthews on 4BC Breakfast and PeakCare CEO Kelly Judd dissected the systemic failures, foster carer shortages, and the state’s 30-month timeline to implement 48 inquiry recommendations.

The broadcast also highlighted Jason’s personal ordeal of being alienated by the foster recruitment process alongside Minister Amanda Camm’s claims that Queensland is finally turning the corner on child protection.

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