Child Protection

Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide) (14:56): My question, again, is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Given that the Chloe Valentine inquest, the Layton review and the Nyland royal commission all recommended that foster parents be involved in family care meetings, will the government now implement this important recommendation and, if not, why not?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (14:56): As I foreshadowed in the last answer, and I will try to explain again, there are 260 recommendations in Commissioner Nyland's report. Of those, there have been—

Ms Sanderson interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is called to order.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Of those, 38 have been accepted.

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Well, my mathematics tell me that means there are some 222 (as a former cricketer would have said) left to be dealt with, and we will work our way through them. But, if the member for Adelaide wants to ask us about any of those 222—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is warned, and the leader persistently interjects after he has moved through all his warnings. Deputy Premier.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: We are working through those remaining recommendations, of which this is one, and we will in due course be able to bring to the parliament a draft bill, and at that point in time the member for Adelaide and everybody else who, quite understandably, is interested in this will have an answer to all of those questions. But, at the moment, given that the government has not considered in detail all of the recommendations and how they are going to fit with one another, we cannot piecemeal say, 'Yes, this one; no, not that one—

Ms Sanderson interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is warned for the second and the final time.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: We are not going to do this in some ad hoc fashion. Indeed, the commissioner was at pains to say to us in her report, 'Don't rush this. Don't you get ahead of yourselves and do something which isn't done properly. You do it properly.' That's what we intend to do: we intend to do it properly.