Grandparents for Grandchildren SA

Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (14:28): My question is to the Minister for Child Protection. Did the minister place pressure on Grandparents for Grandchildren to not participate in a scheduled television interview?

The SPEAKER: That is a very wide-scoping question, so I expect a potentially wide-scoping answer.

The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection) (14:28): I have had several meetings with Grandparents for Grandchildren, and at those meetings I have expressed to them the best interests of children under my care are my absolute primary goal. Grandparents for Grandchildren look after children to prevent them from coming into care, and I said that I would do everything I could to shore up the funding that had been failed to be left by the former Labor government. There was no funding stream. There was no money. Every November, every year, they had been asked for their budget and figures. That had not occurred last November or any time since. I secured three years of funding, and I'm very proud of doing that.