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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="1033">
            <name>Child Protection Workers</name>
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          <inserted>1033 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (3 July 2019).  What workforce planning targets, specifically for the recruitment of child protection workers, are in place for:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;2018-19?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;2019-20? </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="1033">
            <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>(a)&amp;#x9;For 2018-19, the department has set out workforce strategies designed to address vacancies across the department, including the broadening of degree level qualifications, the introduction of a graduate register and targeting recruitment in line with specific needs across the agency.</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;For 2019-20, additional workforce planning is being undertaken to address vacancies across the department that take into account the funding growth, and subsequent rise in funded FTE in 2018-19 and 2019-20.</inserted>
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