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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Residential Care Workers, Psychological Testing</name>
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          <heading>Residential Care Workers, Psychological Testing</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2020-07-21">
            <name>Residential Care Workers, Psychological Testing</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (18 June 2020).  </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="2020-07-21">
            <name>Residential Care Workers, Psychological Testing</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>As I stated in my response at the time, I am only in a position to respond to this question in terms of workers in the child protection portfolio.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Psychological Assessments are undertaken in accordance with the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017, for employees and volunteers to work with children and young people in a residential facility established by the Minister under section 36 of the Family and Community Services Act 1972, or a children's residential facility licensed by my department.</inserted>
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          <inserted>As required by the Children and Young People (Safety) Act 2017, no person who is assessed as being currently psychologically unsuitable is working in a children's residential facility operated or licensed by the Department for Child Protection.</inserted>
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