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Almost one in 10 staff from families, housing department to be sacked (www.theage.com.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The public sector union has warned Victorian child protection workers will be unable to effectively do their jobs if 400 positions are cut in mass redundancies.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whilst this department has been a mess for years it's difficult to see that staffing cuts on this scale will be any improvement without major cultural and procedural changes being made first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What do you mean improvement? This is part of the government wide cost cutting that has been going on since the pandemic lockdowns.