Overseas Travel

In reply to the Hon. S.L. GAME ().6 March 2024).

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries): The Minister for Child Protection has advised:

Attendance at the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Congress in Edinburgh and a busy schedule of meetings with academics, government officials, elected representatives, community members and non-government organisations in Scotland and England provided valuable learnings in contemporary practice that are being used to inform our reform of the child protection and family support system in South Australia.

At the congress, on one of the days I co-presented with Professor Leah Bromfield, Australian Centre for Child Protection, and expert group chair. The presentation was about international approaches to child protection and family support, and the need to reform and transform our current systems.

The timing of the travel was particularly opportune given the ongoing work of the Child Protection Expert Group, which is charged with working collaboratively on the development of a 20-year vision for child protection and family support in South Australia.

I met with extraordinary leaders of women's organisations who have advocated to lead the world in tackling coercive control, raising awareness about this insidious form of domestic violence. I met with those who had developed the legislation and those who sit on the taskforce to oversee its implementation.

I always welcome the opportunity to brief the member on the benefits for struggling children on being involved in recreation and sport and the intersection between these two portfolios.