Police are currently searching for two children missing from residential care, the state government has revealed, as its child safety review begins three weeks of public hearings.

An audit of Queensland’s foster, kinship, and residential care system in July found almost 800 children were unaccounted for.

Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm said 75 per cent were “frequently missing, absent, or both” during routine headcounts.

Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm said her department was in “constant contact” with police to locate two teenagers still unaccounted for in the residential care system. Credit: Catherine Strohfeldt

“It’s over 500 children across the system that, at one point in time, my department didn’t know where they were,” Camm said.

“When we’re talking about complex childr

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