Caseworkers despair over barriers to care

By Anna Patty
Updated September 19 2013 - 12:04am, first published 12:00am

Child protection workers with more than 60 years of collective experience say they are being actively discouraged from taking children, particularly adolescents, into care because of the high costs involved.

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