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  <date date="2019-09-10" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Child Protection Workers</name>
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          <heading>Child Protection Workers</heading>
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        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-07-03" qonNum="1031">
            <name>Child Protection Workers</name>
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          <inserted>1031 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (3 July 2019).  How many social workers have been employed by Department for Child Protection who hold a qualification at AQF diploma levels 5 and 6 have been employed since 1 May 2018?</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="2019-07-03" qonNum="1031">
            <name>Child Protection Workers</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>Social workers and case managers refer to the following positions: social workers; case managers; senior practitioners; high-risk Infant workers; and AHP supervisors. All social workers appointed since 1 May 2018 meet one of the following qualification requirements:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;Social workers require a degree level qualification in Social Work, which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.</inserted>
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          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;The South Australian Modern Public Sector Enterprise Agreement: Salaried 2017 further provides that persons of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who have the appropriate background and skills but do not have the essential qualification, may apply for and be engaged/assigned to the role of social worker and will be entitled to apply for any allied health professional roles requiring a qualification in social work within the Department for Child Protection.</inserted>
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