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Child abuse reporting scheme sees hundreds of complaints in first weeks

The reportable scheme launched July 1, brought forward by 12 months, providing a consistent framework for reporting sexual offences, violence, and neglect.

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A fast-tracked scheme to report harm and abuse of Queensland children has received hundreds of complaints in the first weeks of its rollout.

The reportable scheme launched on July 1, brought forward by 12 months, and provides a consistent framework for reporting sexual offences, violence, and neglect.

A review into serial paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith found five separate occasions where his offending would have been detected had the scheme been in place.

That review found a lack of information sharing between agencies, including police, enabled his decades-long offending, with the new framework eliminating those silos.

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