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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>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
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          <heading>Influenza Vaccinations</heading>
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        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-06-18" qonNum="898">
            <name>Influenza Vaccinations</name>
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          <inserted>898 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  What practices, if any, are in place to ensure eligible children aged over 6 months and under five years of age in residential or commercial care receive a flu vaccination under the State Funded Childhood Influenza Program?</inserted>
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      <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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          <question date="2019-06-18" qonNum="898">
            <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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          <inserted>Immunisation against influenza is funded under the National Immunisation Program for medically at risk persons six months of age and over. SA Health recommends vaccination for children between six months and five years.</inserted>
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          <inserted>DCP staff also work to SA Health's Health Standards for Children and Young People under the Guardianship of the Minister policy directive.</inserted>
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