Volunteer Screening

707 Ms COOK (Hurtle Vale) (25 August 2021). With regard to the free volunteer screening during financial year 2020-21:

(a) How many of the volunteers who availed themselves of free screening subsequently went into paid work and repaid the waived fee for their screening?

(b) How many people have been found to be using a free screening as a worker?

(c) Has the department had any reports of this and/or investigated any cases of fraud?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government): The Minister for Human Services has provided the following advice:

Since delivering on the Marshall Liberal government’s election commitment of abolishing all screening fees for volunteers, 185,602 South Australians and organisations have not been forced to pay the $59.40 per screening they were required to pay under the previous Labor government. To date, no person has been found to be using a free screening as a worker.