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Victoria’s child-safety systems recorded 705 early-childhood notifications, 593 children abused or neglected in care, and thousands of police victim reports. The numbers expose fragmented oversight—not the safety architecture families were promised.
A source-audited Case File on Victorian childcare oversight: 705 early-childhood notifications, almost 250 child-on-child abuse allegations, fragmented worker histories and $484.1 million in incorrect subsidy payments.
Australia has strategies, standards and 409 Royal Commission recommendations — but no transparent national path from child sexual-abuse reports to convictions. The Omen Report examines what the official numbers still do not show.
Caveat: not all notifications are investigated, and not all investigations are substantiated.
THE OMEN REPORT · Independent Australian reporting