Elizabeth Struhs’ child protection case not ‘prioritised’ due to high workload, inquest hears

Key points

• A child safety officer has told a Queensland inquest that Elizabeth Struhs's case was not prioritised or handled intensively because she was very busy. The case worker said she may have been overly influenced by the family's upper class home, placing cases that seemed more immediately risky ahead of Elizabeth's.
• Elizabeth, eight, died in January 2022 of diabetic ketoacidosis after her father stopped giving her insulin for type 1 diabetes at their Toowoomba home. The coroner, Ainslie Kirkegaard, is holding the inquest into her death.
• The inquest continues.