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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-11-29T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Child Protection</name>
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          <heading>Child Protection</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. L.A. CURRAN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2022-11-29T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="174">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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          <inserted>174 <by role="member" id="6928" referenceid="c092620e916d44159f200e0e1316c6a8">The Hon. L.A. CURRAN </by>().3 November 2022).  How many cases have been the subject of notifications to the Department for Child Protection in the last six months and, of these, how many cases were investigated?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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          <question date="2022-11-29T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="174">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries):</by>  The Minister for Child Protection has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>In the six-month period from 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2022, the Department for Child Protection received 16,625 child protection notifications, of which 3,466 (21 per cent) were investigated.</inserted>
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