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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-03-20T14:15:00+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>Autism Inclusion Teachers</name>
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          <heading>Autism Inclusion Teachers</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-03-20T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="325">
            <name>Autism Inclusion Teachers</name>
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          <inserted>325 <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO </by>().7 February 2024).  Can the Minister for Education, Training and Skills advise:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;At the beginning of term 4 2023 how many schools did not have an autism inclusion teacher?</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Please provide a table by 'region' of the schools without an autism inclusion teacher at the beginning of term 4 2023.</inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;At the end of term 4 2023 how many schools did not have an autism inclusion teacher?</inserted>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Please provide a table by 'region' of the schools without an autism inclusion teacher at the end of term 4 2023.</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2024-03-20T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="325">
            <name>Autism Inclusion Teachers</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  The Minister for Education, Training and Skills has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Autism inclusion teachers (AIT) were appointed to all but two schools during 2023. As with many school-based roles, schools experience vacancies during the year, which meant supporting the onboarding of new AITs throughout 2023. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Ceduna Area School and Koonibba Area School were the only primary schools that did not have an AIT at some point during 2023 school year. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Noting the normal variances experienced throughout the year, there were five schools that did not have an AIT specifically at the start of term 4 (week 1).</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;</inserted>
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                <cell>Education Portfolio </cell>
                <cell>Schools without an AIT Week 1 Term 4 </cell>
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                <cell>Gawler 2 </cell>
                <cell>Blyth Primary School </cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Murraylands </cell>
                <cell>Mypolonga Primary School </cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Noarlunga 3 </cell>
                <cell>Pt Noarlunga Primary School  </cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Port Lincoln 2 </cell>
                <cell>Ceduna Area School Koonibba Area School </cell>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;As with question 1, there were only two primary schools that did not have an AIT at some point during the 2023 school year.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Noting the normal variances experienced with workforce changes, there were four schools that did not have an AIT at the end of term 4 (week 10). </inserted>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;</inserted>
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                <cell>Education Portfolio  </cell>
                <cell>Schools without an AIT Week 10 Term 4 </cell>
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                <cell>Gawler 2 </cell>
                <cell>Blyth Primary School </cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>Noarlunga 3 </cell>
                <cell>Pt Noarlunga Primary School  </cell>
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                <cell>Port Lincoln 2 </cell>
                <cell>Ceduna Area School Koonibba Area School </cell>
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