Adelaide Youth Training Centre

Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:37): I have a question for the Minister for Education. How is the government supporting the specialised staff who deliver educational programs at the Youth Training Centre at Cavan?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:37): Has the member just asked me how we are supporting staff who work at Cavan in the educational effort?

Mr GARDNER: Who delivers the specialised education programs at Cavan.

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE: We have excellent staff there. I was visiting very recently in fact to talk to the people who offer training there. They do an outstanding job both within the two facilities that the students are unable to leave as a result of court orders and also in the allied campus, which is out in public, which was originally designed essentially for the students to be able to continue their studies after leaving the facility run by DCSI.

That in fact is now stretching a little more broadly than that. It has quite a range of students who have had nothing to do with the DCSI facility but who nonetheless are well served by that campus. The principal is doing an excellent job, having previously worked on the lands. I commend all the staff who are involved in that effort.