Statement from Minister Kate Jones

Today the Acting Deputy Director-General, Corporate Services, of the Department of Education and Training has voluntarily stood down as investigations into the failed implementation of the OneSchool Student Protection Reporting module continue.

It was confirmed today that after a manual check of all 3,822 OneSchool reports to child safety and police it was found 27 reports of suspected child abuse that should have been provided to Child Safety had not been received due to an IT failure in the Department of Education and Training.

All 27 reports are now with Child Safety.

I have directed the Director-General of the Department to broaden Deloitte’s independent investigation to examine all issues relating to the online student protection reporting system since its introduction in September 2013.

The safety and wellbeing of Queensland’s students is my number one priority and I am committed to ensuring the systems we have in place to report suspected child abuse protect our children.

Media contact: Minister Jones’ Office 3719 7530