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Child protection advocates slam decision to scrap SA social worker registration scheme

Child protection advocates say the South Australian government has let down the state’s most vulnerable people by axing a mandatory registration scheme for social workers, but those in the DV sector say the move could help alleviate workforce shortages. The nation-leading reform was a key recommendation from a coronial inquest into the death of four-year-old…

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Quarantine comes to an end for the last of the hantavirus ship passengers in Nebraska

OMAHA, Nebraska — The last eight American passengers who endured 42 days in a specialized hospital quarantine unit after exposure to an unusual hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that killed three people have left the Nebraska facility. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials on Monday confirmed the end of the quarantine. “Through…

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