Korey Mitchell News Today

A long-term bureaucrat appointed to lead the state's Child Protection Department says one of her first priorities will be to address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care.

The state's Public Sector Employment Commissioner will temporarily take over as head of the Child Protection Department, with outgoing chief executive Cathy Taylor leaving the job today and a permanent replacement yet to be named.

An Adelaide inquest has heard that a lack of resources stopped the state's child protection body from acting before an Aboriginal mother and her two children were murdered.