Families SA to be split from Education Department in major overhaul

Child protection agency Families SA will be split from the Education Department and become a standalone unit, the State Government has announced.

It follows a recommendation from the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission, which was prompted by Shannon McCoole, an employee who sexually abused children in state care.

Royal commissioner Margaret Nyland said Families SA needed to be "completely overhauled".

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