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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Retirement Villages</name>
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          <heading>Retirement Villages</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5382" referenceid="a772f8900bee436db277192229c352bf" uid="cccc74c833074d42a700b10f81207997" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.R. CREGAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kavel</electorate>
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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Retirement Villages</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-06-18T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="5382" referenceid="a772f8900bee436db277192229c352bf" uid="cccc74c833074d42a700b10f81207997">the Hon. D.R. CREGAN (Kavel) </by>(30 June 2023).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="2e662c99b0a947cba9cf8679cc37ff8d" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Retirement Villages</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="2e662c99b0a947cba9cf8679cc37ff8d">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The independent review of the Retirement Villages Act 2016 made 60 recommendations to update legislation, policy and the Better Practice Guidelines. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The Office for Ageing Well has commenced work on the recommendations relating to changes to policy and the Better Practice Guides. These recommendations include the publication of a much broader range of retirement village information on the register and to have the register published online, with accessible and easily navigable functionality.</inserted>
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          <inserted>This work includes developing an online platform accessible via the Office for Ageing Well Retirement Villages website, which will initially include the existing register information. The online platform will have public facing search capability and an operator portal. Further work will continue to occur to include a broader range of information, which will be able to be gathered by the Registrar as a result of the legislative reforms. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The Office for Ageing Well have also been working on reviewing, updating and creating new content for the Better Practice Guidelines and information sheets, to support both residents and operators with commonly raised issues. These products will be available on the Office for Ageing Well Retirement Villages website ready for the commencement of the new legislation.</inserted>
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