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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>
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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="906">
            <name>Children in Care, Immunisation</name>
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          <inserted>906 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  What policies, if any, does the Department for Child Protection have in relation to ensuring that children and young people in residential or commercial care are up to date with their vaccinations as per the:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;National Immunisation Childhood Schedule?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;National Immunisation Adolescent and Adult Schedule?</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="906">
            <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 practice guidance recommends departmental staff, where possible, provide carers and residential and commercial care facilities with all relevant details of a child's or young person's medical history, including any information about allergies and allergic reactions to previous vaccinations, prior to an immunisation. DCP's Lead Practitioner reinforced this guidance in an all-staff email on 3 June 2019.</inserted>
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          <inserted>DCP policies and procedures comply with both the National Immunisation Childhood Schedule and the National Immunisation Adolescent and Adult Schedule, as well as the SA Health's Health Standards for Children and Young People under the Guardianship of the Minister policy directive.</inserted>
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