WA Premier Roger Cook will not commit to going to Port Hedland himself to take charge of a child protection crisis and see the conditions that have been described as a "national shame", The West Australian reports.

Mr Cook was questioned on Wednesday over his government's management of the state's child protection system.

The Premier defended Child Protection Minister Jessica Stojkovski, who has said she was first made aware of complaints last November about a so-called "hell house" on Frisby Court, Port Hedland.

Last month, the minister flew to the Pilbara after reports vulnerable Aboriginal children are being left alone in poor conditions, sometimes for days at a time, in a home owned by the WA Department of Housing and Works.

The Australian revealed days earlier that the children lived in poor conditions in the South Hedland home.

The newspaper reported up to 15 children could be found at the house at times, including the children of the tenants, and that the parents left the house often for days at a time.

The report also said children were sleeping on soiled clothes on the floor, and that the house had been reported to the Department of Child Protection at least nine months ago.

This week The West Australian reported Mr Cook was not concerned it took headlines and a public outcry to spark change, including a now seven-nights a week safe space in the town and new multi-agency co-ordinator.

"Look, the minister has undertaken her duties with great leadership, with great integrity, care, and compassion," he said.

"I think she's doing a good job under difficult services . . . the minister acted on the information that was available to her, and she's responded, got onto the ground, and made changes."

Mr Cook would not say whether he's planning to visit the town himself.

"I have a program of travelling to regional Western Australia all the time," he said.

"I was in Kalgoorlie and Laverton just 48 hours ago. Look, I have travel plans, and I'll make sure that Pilbara is part of those travel plans, or I always do. I'm out in the regions all the time.

"You can always expect to see me in regional WA."

The premier also defended the decision of Attorney-General Tony Buti to follow the State Government's legal advice that he can not direct an inquest into whether warnings were ignored before the murder of three children by their mother in Port Hedland in 2022.

Former WA Governor McCusker and former Children's Court president Denis Reynolds have written to Dr Buti to urge him to ensure an inquest goes ahead, arguing he does have discretion under the law.

"I deeply respect Malcolm McCusker," Mr Cook told The West Australian.

"But look, I note that you know we as government need to respond and act on the guidance that we are given."

Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy has also supported the call from the three children's grandmother, Dorothy Papertalk, for an inquest into their deaths.

The Premier would not comment on WA Commissioner for Children and Young People Jacqueline McGowan-Jones call for a radical overhaul of the child protection system and urgent funding boost for early and intensive family support.

Commissioner McGowan-Jones said the state needs "a holistic approach, whole of government, on child and family wellbeing, because there is no point in having a meeting between a family and the Department for Child Protection and saying, well, how can you bring safety, when there's no perpetrator program, where there's no counselling and trauma supports for children, where there's no safe place to put mum and the children".

Dr McGowan-Jones told National Indigenous Times she has been "working on an Inquiry into the broader child protection system for the past 18 months and this report is due for release by the end of this year".