At 538 Reports of a Drop in Childhood Obesity Are Overblown
From Poor Victorian IT system affecting child safety
The Victorian Department of Human Services has been warned, repeatedly over a half-decade period, that its client information systems are not functioning correctly and are contributing to putting children at risk through inefficient reporting practices (including the use of tedious faxed reports and manual data entry).
Anything to do with child safety is linked to child health. National IT systems have been brought closer together, in Human Services. It makes sense that Centrelink should talk to Health and Justice. The same convergence has been pushed in the UK.
John Ward reflects on ATOS exiting from a contract.
Canberra may be wishing to ‘economise’ by merging IT systems, and doing that by privatising core functions.
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