Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:13): Can the minister outline to the house—

The SPEAKER: Third Supplementary?

Mr MARSHALL: I have only just asked the question, sir. There has only been one question.

The SPEAKER: This is a discrete question?

Mr MARSHALL: This is a first supplementary to the second question.

The SPEAKER: A supplementary to the second question?

Mr MARSHALL: Correct.

The SPEAKER: Splendid, thank you.

Mr MARSHALL: Can the minister outline to the house precisely what the policy is with regard to informing clients of Families SA whether they are living with a sex offender, or not?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (14:14): My very clear advice is that the Families SA workers in the case of Chloe Valentine, for example, should have alerted the mother to the past criminal convictions involving her partner. Indeed, these are things that happen as is required, and there have been cases that have come across my desk where I have seen that families have actually been alerted to that, or safety plans put in place that restrict access of known sex offenders to children in a household.