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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-07-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Influenza Vaccinations</heading>
        </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5376" kind="question">
        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-06-18" qonNum="897">
            <name>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
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        <text id="201907237396b80d105c4b49a0001209">
          <inserted>897 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  How many children and young people, over five years and less than 18 years, in residential and commercial care have:</inserted>
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        <text id="201907237396b80d105c4b49a0001210">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;received a flu vaccination for the current flu season in 2019?</inserted>
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        <text id="201907237396b80d105c4b49a0001211">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;been diagnosed with the flu in 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="2019-06-18" qonNum="897">
            <name>Influenza Vaccinations</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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        <text id="201907237396b80d105c4b49a0001213">
          <inserted>It is the expectation of the department that all children and young people under the guardianship of the chief executive receive all immunisations as recommended by the National Immunisation Program (South Australia Schedule) within the recommended timeframes.</inserted>
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        <text id="201907237396b80d105c4b49a0001214">
          <inserted>It is not appropriate for me, or the department, to disclose medical details about individual children in care, including figures on the number of children suffering specific illness.</inserted>
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        <text id="201907237396b80d105c4b49a0001215">
          <inserted>This is as much about the need for government and the public to respect a child and their family's right to privacy and to treat their personal information with utmost sensitivity, as it is to ensure compliance with relevant legislation.</inserted>
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