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  <date date="2017-06-20" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Child Protection</name>
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          <heading>Child Protection</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4340" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Ms SANDERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Adelaide</electorate>
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          <question date="2017-06-20">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4340">Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide)</by> (21 September 2016).  </inserted>
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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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        <questions>
          <question date="2017-06-20">
            <name>Child Protection</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):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>The development of a northern office of the Department for Child Protection is being progressed in consultation with staff as well as external stakeholders. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The Gawler office will not form part of the merger. </inserted>
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