Youth Justice System

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:35): Supplementary, sir: have any reforms been undertaken in the past 3½ years that would have enabled the youth justice department to put the safety of the young offender who becomes part of the adult corrections department ahead of privacy concerns and thereby allow material to be transferred from Youth Justice to Corrections?

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:35): I thank the honourable member for his question. As I mentioned a bit earlier, I did advise that one of the major issues the Coroner raised was the transfer of information. I can advise that my agency, the department, with the department DCSI, last year put in place a memorandum of administrative arrangement which enables us, the two agencies, to share information. As the member has quite rightly pointed out, the initial issue was ranked regarding privacy—how we get around that. Obviously, we have worked through that and that arrangement now enables the appropriate information to be shared between agencies.