Victoria will fast-track new child safety laws as part of a system ‘overhaul’. Here’s what we know

The power to immediately suspend an individual’s working with children check during an investigation is among changes expected to pass parliament this week

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Authorities in Victoria will have the power to immediately suspend an individual’s working with children check during an investigation, under new laws to be fast-tracked through the parliament this week.

The premier, Jacinta Allan, said the laws, to be introduced to parliament on Tuesday, were just one part of an “overhaul” of the child safety system in the state, after a review by the former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and the senior bureacrat Pamela White.