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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Children in Care, Immunisation</name>
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          <heading>Children in Care, Immunisation</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="903">
            <name>Children in Care, Immunisation</name>
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          <inserted>903 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  Are foster or kinship carers responsible for making immunisation arrangements for a child in their 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="903">
            <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 policy and practice guidance, including the publicly available document, 'Who can say ok? Making decisions about children in care', state that a carer can provide consent for immunisations, including through a child's participation in school vaccination programs. DCP case workers are available to provide advice and assistance based on medical information contained in a child's case file.</inserted>
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