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  <date date="2020-09-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Human Services Department</name>
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          <heading>Human Services Department</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4978" kind="question">
        <name>Ms COOK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hurtle Vale</electorate>
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          <question date="2020-07-21" qonNum="182">
            <name>Human Services Department</name>
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          <inserted>182 <by role="member" id="4978">Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale)</by> (21 July 2020).  For the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 what was the average wait time for each type of child, vulnerable person or other check conducted by the Department for Human Services?</inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Planning and Local Government</name>
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          <question date="2020-07-21" qonNum="182">
            <name>Human Services Department</name>
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            <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government):</by>  The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Average processing times for the vast majority of screening applications completed in 2019-20 were:</inserted>
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                <cell>Screening</cell>
                <cell>Average Processing time*</cell>
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                <cell>Working with Children Checks</cell>
                <cell>7.3 Calendar Days</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Disability Services employment </cell>
                <cell>7.1 Calendar Days</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Aged Care Employment checks</cell>
                <cell>6.4 Calendar Days</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Vulnerable Person-Related Employment</cell>
                <cell>6.2 Calendar Days</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>General Employment Probity</cell>
                <cell>6.6 Calendar Days</cell>
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          <inserted>*excludes less than 2.5 per cent of screenings requiring complex screening and risk assessment, which may involve seeking additional information from third parties and procedural fairness considerations.</inserted>
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