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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="1035">
            <name>Child Protection Workers</name>
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          <inserted>1035 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (3 July 2019).  What is the projected vacancy rate for child protection workers for 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="1035">
            <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>The Department for Child Protection has identified workforce strategies, such as targeted recruitment to address vacancies across the agency. It is anticipated that these strategies will reduce the vacancy rate across the department in 2019-20.</inserted>
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