A rethink of the burgeoning home-school sector has been proposed amid a tripling in the number of children taught at home.
Are more teachers leaving or being hired? It’s not the only question facing Queensland education in an election year.
The state government has been warned that increasing its rules for home-schooling could push the movement underground.
A judge has taken a swipe at Queensland government agencies for their management of an intellectually disabled Indigenous boy.
The site will be built near existing detention centres to address nation-leading capacity pressures. But it’s been called a “Band-Aid solution”.
Detainees at Brisbane’s youth prisons allegedly attacked staff with a makeshift knife and punched another in the face in separate incidents this week.
A Labor election fundraiser with Queensland government ministers was promised to be transparent,but official diaries provide little clarity over the event.
In the past year,the Queensland Audit Office identified five examples where young adolescents slept overnight in police stations because of a lack of placement options.
Child Safety Minister Di Farmer announced the investigation on Friday after the death of Willow Dunn and discovery of two teenage boys at a home in Stafford.
The announcement came outside the inaugural meeting of the state's re-established Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council.
The LNP has argued the Child Safety system is broken,after figures revealed thousands of children who were not seen on time had their cases substantiated.