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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>Young People in Care, Sexually Transmitted Diseases</name>
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          <heading>Young People In Care, Sexually Transmitted Diseases</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="908">
            <name>Young People In Care, Sexually Transmitted Diseases</name>
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        <text id="201907230c7da1c106c949efa0001264">
          <inserted>908 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2019).  Since 20 March 2018 how many young people, aged 18 or under, have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases upon 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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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-06-18" qonNum="908">
            <name>Young People In Care, Sexually Transmitted Diseases</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>While DCP records medical information, including the details of any significant illnesses, on the case files of children and young people in care, the department does not release information of this type, except to carers where this is appropriate and necessary. This is as much about the need for government and the public to respect a child and their family's right to privacy and to treat their personal information with utmost sensitivity, as it is to ensure compliance with relevant legislation.</inserted>
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