Some children in out-of-home care in Tasmania were not regularly visited by safety officers after a shift to a case management policy which violated their rights, a peak advocate says.
The state department responsible for out-of-home care last year moved to a team case management model as a result of staffing shortages.
It meant some young people no longer had individual safety officers but were instead managed by a team who they could contact via a generic email or telephone number.
Almost 400 children were shifted to the model in the first four months of its operation.