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      <name>Education and Child Development Department Employees</name>
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        <heading>Education and Child Development Department Employees</heading>
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        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Education and Child Development Department Employees</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:50):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Are the three Department for Education and Child Development staff members, particularly identified by Magistrate Susan O'Connor in her reasons for dismissing the charges against Jemima Raymond, still in their positions at the school?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education and Child Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Higher Education and Skills</name>
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            <name>Education and Child Development Department Employees</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:50):</by>  The matter that the member is referring to is about a case that was taken through to the Magistrates Court recently. Not only was the person who was charged found not guilty but the magistrate had some comments to make about the processes that led up to that case being brought forward and also some reflections on some of the staff who had been involved as witnesses, for want of a better term.</text>
        <text id="20170411b37b122b6aa74e8d90000654">I have had a conversation with the chief executive of the department and he is well aware that he needs to review the comments in detail that were made by the magistrate and determine whether he needs to undertake any actions. You have asked specifically about whether they are in position. I don't have the detail on all three, so I will take that on notice, but I think the larger question is whether there will be any action resulting, and the chief executive will consider that and act accordingly.</text>
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