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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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      <talker role="member" id="5376" kind="question">
        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-07-03" qonNum="1038">
            <name>Child Protection Workers</name>
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          <inserted>1038 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (3 July 2019).  What was the actual vacancy rate for social workers as at:</inserted>
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        <text id="201909104c5dffbee8874a43a0001394">
          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;20 June 2019?</inserted>
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        <text id="201909104c5dffbee8874a43a0001395">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;18 March 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="1038">
            <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.</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;The vacancy rate for social workers and case managers in May 2019 was 9.4 per cent.</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;The vacancy rate for social workers and case managers in March 2018 was 13.1 per cent.</inserted>
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        <text id="201909104c5dffbee8874a43a0001400">
          <inserted>The latest data available at the time of preparation of this document was for May 2019.</inserted>
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