Children in danger as NSW child protection reaches crisis point, striking caseworkers say

Public-sector workers call for pay rise, 500 additional staff and the de-privatising of out-of-home care

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New South Wales child protection workers have warned that some of the state’s most vulnerable children are being neglected or put at risk of being removed from their families because resourcing problems in the sector have reached crisis point.

More than 2,000 public-sector child protection workers across the state plan to strike for part of the day on Wednesday as they call on the government to give them a pay rise, hire 500 additional staff and de-privatise out-of-home care.

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