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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2017-02-15" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Aged-Care Workers</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Aged-Care Workers</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2017-02-15">
            <name>Aged-Care Workers</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett)</by> (3 August 2016).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4623" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Social Housing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Status of Women</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Ageing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Youth</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Volunteers</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-02-15">
            <name>Aged-Care Workers</name>
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        <text id="20170215bf59c43d517845d290000991">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4623">The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="20170215bf59c43d517845d290000992">
          <inserted>1. &amp;#x9;As a result of the 2011 Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council (AHMAC) national consultation on Options for the regulation of unregistered health practitioners, in 2013, the South Australian Government implemented the Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner (HCSCC). </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215bf59c43d517845d290000993">
          <inserted>The HCSCC investigates any breach of that code of conduct and action as deemed appropriate pertaining to non-registered health practitioners, including aged-care workers. Prohibitions orders, either term or permanent, can be set in place as part of this process.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215bf59c43d517845d290000994">
          <inserted>South Australia, through the Department for Health and Ageing is currently reviewing the Code of Conduct in line with the Australian Health Minister's Advisory Council agreement in 2015 for there to be a National Code of Conduct.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215bf59c43d517845d290000995">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Other States are in the process of reviewing their legislation and considering various options.</inserted>
        </text>
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