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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2025-09-16T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <proceeding continued="true" uid="e78f3dcca9b6480daa57cc4cd97ba5a9">
    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Preschool Staffing</name>
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          <heading>Preschool Staffing</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" referenceid="98bc9886f8ef4f70897848c1d1c59c00" uid="80bff9c05fb3412e839d2e0b2b3a6b20" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Preschool Staffing</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-09-17T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4343" referenceid="98bc9886f8ef4f70897848c1d1c59c00" uid="80bff9c05fb3412e839d2e0b2b3a6b20">the Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta)  </by>(23 June 2025).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5389" referenceid="258e99f5e8a5469db1af773d39ba5018" uid="4891dfe6d39e43febd8deebb0c07d286" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. B.I. BOYER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education, Training and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Preschool Staffing</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5389" referenceid="258e99f5e8a5469db1af773d39ba5018" uid="4891dfe6d39e43febd8deebb0c07d286">The Hon. B.I. BOYER (Wright—Minister for Education, Training and Skills):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The department does track retention rates of preschool staff. Retention rate percentages as at January each year are:</inserted>
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            <inserted>January 2025—89 per cent derived retention rate</inserted>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0001773">
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            <inserted>January 2024—84 per cent derived retention rate</inserted>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0001774">
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            <inserted>January 2023—89 per cent derived retention rate.</inserted>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0001775">
          <inserted>*The derived retention rate is calculated using the proportion of employees active at the current snapshot date who were employed at the equivalent snapshot date 12 months prior.</inserted>
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