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  <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>Children in Care, Immunisation</name>
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          <heading>Children in Care, Immunisation</heading>
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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="900">
            <name>Children in Care, Immunisation</name>
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          <inserted>900 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  What Department for Child Protection practices, if any, are in place to ensure a child or young person's continued and maintained schedule of immunisations are followed upon first entering residential or commercial care?</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="900">
            <name>Children in Care, Immunisation</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>DCP staff work to SA Health's Health Standards for Children and Young People under the Guardianship of the Minister policy directive. In line with this policy, departmental practice guidance advises DCP case workers to arrange for a primary care practitioner to conduct a health check as soon as possible after a child is placed in care, ideally within 30 days. DCP practice guidance also recommends case workers keep records of immunisations and that this information is made available, as appropriate, to those responsible for the day-to-day care of the child.</inserted>
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          <inserted>DCP staff work in accordance with SA Health's recommended vaccination schedule.</inserted>
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