Luke's Army - Government Child Protection Exposed

This photo was taken on my last visit with my Lukey Pookey, he died in my arms two weeks later. You can see the scratches on his face. I rang and rang trying to get him out of that house, away from that foster carer who had already been complained about over 20 times from abuse to other children. Pat Anderson, manager Cairns North DoCS wouldn't even return my calls, she knew all of this.

The next day at a visit with his mother she found severe scratches on his penis which had to be looked at by a doctor they were so bad.

Pat Anderson is a serial child kidnapper and murderer endorsed by

We first met him in this space on the day before Thanksgiving way back in 1998 -- a shy, smiling 9-year-old refugee from Maine's foster-care circuit whose wildest dreams had just come true: He had a new mom and dad. He had a new home, a new neighborhood, a new school. He had, for the first time in his anything-but-easy young life, an anything-is-possible future.

Yet there stood Gordon Collins-Faunce, now 23, blank-faced Friday in York County Superior Court, charged with murdering his own infant son.

And there in the gallery sat Irv Faunce, Gordon's adoptive father, lost in the rubble of

SOCIETY MUST prioritise the most important duties of child protection workers as they cannot do everything currently expected of them, the Health Service Executive’s national director of child and family services has warned.

Gordon Jeyes, speaking at the publication of a report on how best to retain social workers, said: “Social workers can’t do everything.”

The greatest proportion of social workers are in child and family protection.

Mr Jeyes said a debate was needed as to what were the most important functions of child protection services, as they moved from the HSE into the new Child and