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Amanda Camm has again been grilled in parliament dodging questions about how many children in residential care died in the past year. The child safety minister says the system is under strain but it's not her fault.

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00:02More questions than answers in question time.
00:05The point of order is in relevance, we just want to hear an answer to that question.
00:09It's turning into, not question time, but debates on points of order.
00:13Child safety dominating for a second day in a row.
00:17Of the 91 children known to child safety who died last financial year, how many were living in residential care?
00:24Will the minister commit to improving priority assessment response times for the thousands of children currently waiting?
00:33The minister not directly responding, acknowledging a system in crisis, but saying it came to them broken.
00:41And they want to know about child deaths, but they don't want to reflect, Mr Speaker, upon the child deaths
00:47and the failings under their watch, Mr Speaker.
00:49Data released yesterday showed there had been a slight drop in the number of children in residential care,
00:56but only 10% who may have needed help were assessed within 72 hours.
01:02The child safety system can't be running effectively if response times are this bad.
01:09Earlier, the government's focus was on youth crime and its early intervention efforts.
01:14The premier launching the LNP's first crime prevention school.
01:19It gives a young man at that sliding door moment the opportunity to get an education
01:24and get some discipline and some structure, some love, some compassion.
01:2833 year 7 boys, the first cohort to go through the Gold Coast School,
01:33with facilities in Ipswich, Rockhampton and Townsville to follow.
01:38They all just support me if I'm struggling, but yeah, they just make me sort of feel safer.
01:45And if we can reach the P.uger, this would want to talk about route and on right to not
01:47get that S.
01:47You

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