Queensland Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm will launch an audit into what she described as a “critical IT failure” potentially affecting the ability of staff to act on time-sensitive risks to vulnerable children.

At a media conference in Brisbane on Saturday morning, Camm revealed issues with a long-awaited IT system upgrade, dubbed Unify, which her department transitioned to in April.

“This bungled IT program has resulted in frontline staff not being able to access timely and accurate information,” she said, adding that this had affected information sharing with other agencies, as well as reporting functions.

Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm has blamed the former Labor government for the “bungled” program. Credit: Matt Dennien

“My major concern, as the minister for child safety

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