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APY Lands, Child Safety

In reply to the Hon. S.G. WADE (14 May 2015).

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy):

I am advised that Ms Nerida Saunders, Executive Director, Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Department of State Development, co-chairs the APY Lands Steering Committee.

I am further advised that at the APY Lands Steering Committee meeting on 25 February 2016 it was decided that a Child Safety and Wellbeing Subcommittee would be formed. The Department for Education and Child Development is the responsible agency for this subcommittee. The subcommittee held its first meeting on 21 April 2016.