House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2013-07-04 Daily Xml

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CHILD PROTECTION

Mr PISONI (Unley) (15:00): Thank you, sir. My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Is the minister saying that she is only responsible for the child protection of children in government schools and, if so, who is responsible for children outside of that bailiwick?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:01): I have explained, I hope, in the last answer, the mechanisms to the present time—and if we don't have this legislation go through the parliament shortly it will continue to be the case—what the arrangements are for the supervision of people on bail. We also know that if a person is not just a person on bail, but is a person who is a former offender and, therefore, on the child register, there is a whole range of things that might be done which this legislation that we are going to be looking at this afternoon will also strengthen.

It is the police, I emphasise again, who are the people who deal with people on bail, and the individual concerned, so far as I am aware, is one of those people who was a former offender, in respect of whom there is a record and in respect of whom there is a registration on the child sex offender's register. So, the mechanism of supervision for this particular individual is through bail.