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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.

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[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 6 points 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 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tc43@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago