Child safety advocates have urged the Queensland government to take a holistic approach in improving services after a report slammed police resourcing in the field.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Child Safety minister Shannon Fentiman met with stakeholders including Bravehearts representatives on Tuesday to discuss child protection government policy.
"We know fundamentally that child protection safety must be a government priority," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"We are going to make sure that this will be a focus, we are going to get the policy settings right, but today also was a very significant step in making sure that my government is listening to the frontline community protection services."
Bravehearts research director Carol Ronken said the government needed to broadly examine the issues facing those at the coal face.
"Our view certainly is that we need to take a holistic approach so we need to be looking at everything from educating children from a very young age around risks and how to stay safe, talking to parents about what the risks are to children online ... right through to looking at the legislation, the different types of offences and how we deal with offenders once they've been caught," she said.
The report, commissioned by the current Queensland Labor government, found the previous government put a disproportionate amount of resources into fighting bikie gangs at the expense of other crimes, including child exploitation.
The findings sparked outrage in Liberal National Party ranks, with shadow police minister Jarrod Bleijie saying it was "orchestrated and politically motivated".
Acting commissioner Ross Barnett slammed suggestions resources were diverted from child protection, saying 700 police were fighting child exploitation across Queensland, compared to just 89 focused on outlaw bikie gangs.
But Ms Palaszczuk denied the report had caused a rift between the government and police.
She said she would meet with Commissioner Ian Stewart once he was back from the United States, where he is attending a conference and taking personal leave.
Shadow attorney-general Ian Walker said the report was another attempt by Labor to attack criminal gang laws and that criticism about resource distribution was unfounded.
"I haven't seen any evidence in (the) report that says that resources were taken away from one area and given to another," he said on Tuesday.
