Alternative Care Arrangements

716 Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (1 May 2019). How many children in rural and regional communities have been placed in alternative care arrangements outside of their local community since 1 April 2018?

The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection): I have been advised that:

Every effort is made to place children and young people within their family.

One hundred and twenty five children and young people who entered care from rural and regional South Australia between 1 April 2018 and 1 April 2019 were placed in out of home care outside of their local community.

The major reason that a child or young person is placed outside of their local community is so that they can be placed with relative and kinship carers.