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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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CHILD PROTECTION

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): Supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Before the supplementary, I call the members for Schubert, Heysen, Kavel and Hammond to order, and I warn the member for Unley for the first time. Leader.

Mr MARSHALL: My supplementary question is again to the Minister for Education and Child Development. When did the Parent Complaint Unit initiate an investigation into the failure of the teacher to comply with the mandatory reporting requirements under the Children's Protection Act?

The SPEAKER: We will treat that as question No. 2; it's not sequential or cognate. Minister for Education.

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (14:12): I don't see anywhere in the letter that was sent by the parents that they were making a complaint about a teacher. They mention the two offences and the age of the daughter and the offender. They say she reported it to the school on both occasions and, as I said yesterday, the school claims it was unaware of the 2011 event.

The investigation so far—

I am quoting now, but it doesn't say what investigation—

The investigation so far has been unsuccessful in finding any evidence that these assaults were reported to Families SA by the school. This is put up as a statement of fact. The school did not contact us at any time even though [their daughter] had given them permission to do so.

So, the letter doesn't contain, as far as I can see, a request for an investigation by the Parent Complaint Unit. The Parent Complaint Unit did, however, respond to the parents on 4 June and answered their query about mandatory reporting requirements and provided a contact number for the Families SA customer service manager, as was requested.

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