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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Foster Carers</name>
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          <heading>Foster Carers</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="748">
            <name>Foster Carers</name>
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          <inserted>748 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (14 May 2019).  Of the new foster carers who have been recruited since 1 April 2018, how many have since left the child protection system? And how many never had a child placed in their care? How many had one child placed in their care? How many had more than one child placed in their care, either simultaneously or consecutively?</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. R. SANDERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Child Protection</name>
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          <question date="2019-05-14" qonNum="748">
            <name>Foster Carers</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4340">The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>As at 1 April 2019, there have been three registered primary and secondary foster carers (two households) who have entered the SA child protection system and subsequently left, since 1 April 2018. One of the two households has transitioned to kinship care and the other exited the South Australia child protection system due to a relocation of carers interstate.</inserted>
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          <inserted>All of the registered primary and secondary foster carers had more than one placement either consecutively or simultaneously of short-term, emergency and respite placement types.</inserted>
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          <inserted>A household with which a child or young person can be placed is distinct from the number of registered primary and secondary foster carers, as both the registered primary and secondary foster carer can care for a child or young person within one household. Foster carers can choose to facilitate one or more placement types such as long-term, short-term, emergency, respite and specialist placements.</inserted>
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