FAMILY and Community Services Minister Pru Goward has again been accused of misleading parliament and spinning "a web of deceit" about caseworker numbers.
The NSW opposition repeated calls for her resignation after releasing a series of internal emails showing a drop in staff numbers at an office in Wollongong.
Following the death of two-year-old Zoran Ivanovski in August, Ms Goward told parliament not a single Wollongong worker had been cut.
Zoran was repeatedly reported to the department in the weeks before his death but the union claims staff cuts meant they didn't have the resources to follow it up.
During question time on Wednesday, the opposition again accused the minister of misleading parliament.
The emails show that while the Wollongong office had 43.9 fulltime equivalent staff in June 2011, this had decreased to 32.7 by December last year.
They also indicate staff were to be cut to 29 fulltime from January of this year.
"I think it is absolutely abhorrent that today Labor has politicised the tragic death of a child," Ms Goward fired back.
She said the office was over-staffed in the months leading up to Zoran's death.
"We funded at that time 37.7 fulltime equivalent staff at the Wollongong office," she said, adding that it was for the department to decide where positions should be filled.
Earlier on Wednesday, opposition leader John Robertson accused her of playing with the numbers.
"This minister can try and dress it up, she can mince her words.
"The fact is there has been a reduction from 44 to 33 staff in an 18-month period," he told reporters.
Ms Goward has been under siege since August budget estimates, when she denied in parliament any knowledge of a report that contradicted her claims the state has more than 2000 case workers.
The Ernst & Young report found only 1797 positions had been filled.
She has also been accused of failing to correct the parliamentary record in March after her department reportedly informed of the correct caseworker numbers.
Earlier this week, the opposition said June 11 meeting minutes showed Ms Goward was advised that millions of dollars would be required if the promised 2068 caseworkers posts were to be delivered.
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