Child Protection

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:15): My supplementary is to the minister for families. Is the minister saying that on the visits that she attended these facilities that they were unannounced? Obviously, they were with other officers, but they were random checks, unannounced, and that there was no advice to the residential facility that she, as minister, was attending?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (15:15): Certainly, that was my understanding. In fact, on one occasion the worker was very, very cautious—and appropriately so—about letting us enter the house because they wanted to clarify that we had the appropriate authority to visit.