ACT minister Rachel Stephen-Smith says she believes that more child protection decisions should be subject to external review.
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But Ms Stephen-Smith said there was no "clear consensus" among stakeholders on how the current model should be fixed.
The territory's children, youth and families minister made the concession during evidence to the ACT Legislative Assembly's child protection inquiry on Wednesday afternoon.
The inquiry is examining the territory's child protection system in the wake of a court decision which found the government wrongfully removed five Aboriginal children from their mother in 2013.
The central issue emerging from the inquiry's public hearings has been extent to which territory law shields decisions made by the ACT's child protection agency from external scrutiny.
Administrative decisions on where a child in state care is placed, who is allowed to visit them, and the frequency of those visits, aren't subject to external review.
The ACT Council of Social Services' new executive Emma Campbell, speaking at the same hearing, described it as "troubling".
In her opening address to Wednesday's hearing, Ms Stephen-Smith said that "everyone agrees, including me" that more external review options should exist for child protection decisions.
Long story short is everyone agrees that more review mechanisms should be available - including me.
- ACT Minister for Children, Youth and Families Rachel Stephen-Smith
"[However] there is no consensus on what those should be, just as there is no consistency between other jurisdictions on either which decisions are reviewable or the most appropriate review process," she said.
Ms Stephen-Smith reiterated that the ACT government was conducting a review around child protection decisions, and she would "have more to say" on the matter next month in the Legislative Assembly.
Committee member Vicki Dunne questioned why the problem hadn't already been addressed, given it was highlighted in Laurie Glanfield's inquiry into the territory's child protection system in 2016.
Ms Stephen-Smith pointed out that the Glanfield inquiry had only recommended the government commit to a review, which it started last year.
But she did concede the process had taken longer than she had expected.
"It is something that I am keen to see move forward," she said. "But as I said in my opening statement, there is not a single model that we can pick up an apply in the ACT.
"I have read all the submissions to the discussion paper and there is no consistent view among stakeholders."
At Wednesday's hearing, Ms Stephen-Smith, who is also the ACT's health minister, said she would "look into" allegations that foster carers had been denied access to medical records for a child under their care.
Foster care agency Barnardo's Australia made the claim during public hearings last week.