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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="905">
            <name>Children in Care, Immunisation</name>
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          <inserted>905 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  What support, if any, does the Department for Child Protection provide to foster or kinship carers in making vaccination arrangements for a child or young person 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="905">
            <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 encourage case workers and other frontline DCP staff to provide advice to carers on immunisation schedules and, where possible, relevant medical information relating to the child or young person, including allergies or allergic reactions experienced during previous immunisations. Carers can provide consent for immunisations of children and young people in their care.</inserted>
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