Child Protection, Rice Inquiry

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:29): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding child safety. What is your or your agency's duty of care to ensure that information is shared when a pregnant teenage girl in state care presents to a public hospital and, after reflecting on the Rice report, what could you or your agency have done better to avoid the significant failings experienced by the Minister for Child Protection?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:29): There is certainly a high level of awareness in our department and in our responsibilities in terms of mandatory reporting, and those obligations are delivered on. In terms of the Rice report, I certainly have referred a copy of it to my department but I have not received a briefing as yet.