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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-07-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Financial Counselling Service</name>
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          <heading>Financial Counselling Service</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5376" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-07-23">
            <name>Financial Counselling Service</name>
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        <text id="201907235464dea083a74f54a0001789">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (6 June 2019).  </inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4340" kind="answer">
        <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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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-07-23">
            <name>Financial Counselling Service</name>
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        <text id="201907235464dea083a74f54a0001790">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4340">The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="201907235464dea083a74f54a0001791">
          <inserted>All 59 full-time equivalent positions within the Department for Child Protection's Financial Wellbeing Program ceased on 30 June 2019.</inserted>
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        <text id="201907235464dea083a74f54a0001792">
          <inserted>Of the 59 affected staff members who worked on the DCP Financial Wellbeing Program, 27 have accepted targeted voluntary separation packages, 30 have been transitioned to other roles in DCP, one has transferred to a permanent position in another agency, and one has taken up a temporary position in another agency.</inserted>
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