{"id":16162,"date":"2017-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/14000-child-abuse-calls-go-unanswered-minister-responds\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:00:00","slug":"14000-child-abuse-calls-go-unanswered-minister-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/14000-child-abuse-calls-go-unanswered-minister-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"14,000 child abuse calls go unanswered &#8212; minister responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Minister Susan Close says not all of the phone calls that are swamping the Child Protection Agency are ones the department should be looking at.<\/h3>\n<p>She said the SA health, police and education departments would work within the \u201cmulti-agency front door that we are going to set up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally child protection agency is about going out, looking at the kids and seeing if we need to remove them, and not every phone call requires that kind of response,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/302434699&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She said the agency was up to 67,000 contacts, but only 20,000 were \u201cscreened-in\u201d &#8212; which meant they were cases that belonged in the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see this kind of winnowing down of a large number of contacts that are making their way to us, but not necessarily what we want to be hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily what the child protection agency should be looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she said the agency was looking to employ 20 additional fulltime staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem really is that we have 74 staff working there and we have escalating number of people making contact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/south-australia\/more-than-14000-calls-to-child-abuse-hotline-have-gone-unanswered-in-the-past-six-months\/news-story\/2d11aa3fbd230294ab9c199e8f56fc01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Thursday night The Advertiser reported<\/a> that more than 14,000 calls to reports suspected child abuse had gone unanswered in the past six months.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/videos\/channel-7-news-blooper-goes-viral\"><strong>HILARIOUS 7 NEWS BLOOPER GOES VIRAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/pilko-drops-huge-port-adelaide-rumour-live-on-air\"><strong>PILKO DROPS HUGE PORT ADELAIDE RUMOUR LIVE ON AIR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Susan Close says not all of the phone calls that are swamping the Child Protection Agency are ones the department should be looking at. She said the SA health, police and education departments would work within the \u201cmulti-agency front door that we are going to set up\u201d. \u201cReally child protection agency is about going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>14,000 child abuse calls go unanswered - minister responds - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/14000-child-abuse-calls-go-unanswered-minister-responds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"14,000 child abuse calls go unanswered -- minister responds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister Susan Close says not all of the phone calls that are swamping the Child Protection Agency are ones the department should be looking at. 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