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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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        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-05-14" qonNum="782">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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          <inserted>782 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (14 May 2019).  What recommendations have been made by the Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People related to child protection matters or children in state care since 18 October 2018?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-05-14" qonNum="782">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education):</by>  I have been advised of the following:</inserted>
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          <inserted>None. The Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People commenced in the role 3 December 2018.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Since her recent appointment, the inaugural commissioner has established her office, undertaken an intensive engagement program with government and Aboriginal community stakeholders about the role. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The commissioner is a member of the SA Family Matters forum, meets regularly with the Department for Child Protection leadership and is an appointed member of the Department for Education's Aboriginal Experts Advisory Panel and the Housing and Homelessness Taskforce. In addition, she is a member of, and attends the national forum of Australia—New Zealand Children Commissioners and Guardians whom meet twice a year.</inserted>
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