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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-07-22" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <endPage num="1431" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Disability Services</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-07-22">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <text id="202007229887993faa1a48dda0001469">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4697">the Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) </by>(18 June 2020).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2020-07-22">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202007229887993faa1a48dda0001470">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202007229887993faa1a48dda0001471">
          <inserted>Since March 2018 I have been advised of one allegation in a state-run disability care facility. The allegation was investigated by SAPOL and the department's Incident Management Unit and was not substantiated.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202007229887993faa1a48dda0001472">
          <inserted>I have not been notified of a person being convicted of rape that occurred in a state-run disability care facility since March 2018.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202007229887993faa1a48dda0001473">
          <inserted>I have been notified of a conviction of aggravated indecent assault by a Department of Human Services disability support worker. The worker was convicted in April 2018 for an assault that occurred in 2017.</inserted>
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      </talker>
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