She described workers sitting in the office with the door closed and rarely checking on her."The state (is) my parent, but it (doesn't) act like one," she said.The harrowing stories many youth workers, foster carers and young people have of the Queensland child protection system will leave lifelong scars, which can teach more than any inquiry.This week, 52 recommendations have been published from the latest one.The $20m inquiry is the fourth in almost three decades into what the Queensland government has described as a "broken" system.Still, the commissioner Paul Anastassiou has published radical, if optimistic, recommendations.But he said, "no tweak or tinkering will change the present trajectory of the child protection system." The department, he says, needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.That starts with shifting children out of the $1bn residential care system, where they've experienced harm, abuse and neglect.These group homes were supposed to be last-resort, short-stay accommodation for teenagers, but they've made service providers millions Many of them are unlicensed.CEO of the Youth Advocacy Network, Katherine Hayes, told the ABC this week the department was a "huge expensive failure" and reforming it will be "like turning around an ocean liner".The government announced it'll start by removing children under five from residential care.There are still questions about how this will work in practice. Experts have asked what it will mean for sibling groups in care