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Number of children in residential care in Qld jumps to record new highs

The Crisafulli government has released its response to the Child Safety Commission of Inquiry. (ABC News: Curtis Rodda)

The Queensland government has released its response to the child safety inquiry and accepted 32 out of 52 recommendations and accepted in principle a further 16.

It comes as new data shows the number of children in residential care in Queensland has jumped to a new record high of almost 3,000, up from 2,200 last year.

Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm said the new peak was a "line in the sand" and reaffirmed a commitment to remove all children under five from residential care.

Almost 3,000 children were in residential care (resi-care) in Queensland in March, a new record high, and a stark increase from the more than 2,200 recorded in the previous year.

Child safety system ‘broken’, Camm admits, revealing rising number of kids in care

The number of children – including those younger than five – in state care in Queensland has risen, the Child Safety minister has revealed.

Data released by Amanda Camm showed 2819 children were in residential care as of March, up from 2258 compared with the previous year.

The number of children aged four or younger rose from 78 in 2025 to 107.

The minister has been under fire, after claims from opposition MPs late in June that department staff had left children to sleep on the floor at government offices.

While she took a week to address the claims – the deputy premier saying she had been in hospital suffering a migraine – she also had to front media to explain the state’s bungled rollout of its new child safety IT system, Unify.

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