Overview
- The Queensland government announced on Tuesday a $250 million, four-year package to establish a Queensland Protection Commission and to kick-start a permanent intelligence hub for child safety.
- The government has accepted the majority of recommendations from the 10-month Child Death Review Board inquiry that found more than 18 missed opportunities to detect or stop long‑running abuse by childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith.
- The commission will absorb the existing Queensland Family and Child Commission and take on key functions such as the Blue Card working-with-children checks and the reportable conduct framework to centralise oversight.
- A dedicated intelligence hub hosted by the commission will pool and analyse cross-agency data from health, education, police and other departments to reveal patterns of concern, with the commission due to begin work by February and the hub planned to run from March 2028.
- Griffith’s Queensland appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, and state and federal approvals are in place for his transfer to New South Wales to face further charges, a development that helped trigger the overhaul.