The public sector union has warned Victorian child protection workers will be unable to effectively do their jobs if 400 positions are cut in mass redundancies.

  • LineNoise@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Whilst this department has been a mess for years it’s difficult to see that staffing cuts on this scale will be any improvement without major cultural and procedural changes being made first.

    • Creazle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What do you mean improvement? This is part of the government wide cost cutting that has been going on since the pandemic lockdowns.

  • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Does this mean 9 in 10 staff are vat-grown clones? Don’t know why the hell that would justify firing the entire housing department, though.