House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2013-11-12 Daily Xml

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CHILD PROTECTION

Mr PISONI (Unley) (15:01): My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. In February last year, why did the head of schools inform the student wrongly accused of accessing pornography that the teacher at the centre of that incident had been referred to the Teachers Registration Board when the minister's office told media last week that no such referral had been made?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (15:01): I have had a look at the email that was sent by the head of the office of education, and it does not say that at all—surprise, surprise. What I can tell the house is that things are referred to the Teachers Registration Board in certain circumstances. I think that is similar to the wording in the particular email that the member for Unley is referring to, and there are legislative constraints around what is referred and what is investigated by the Teachers Registration Board.

Mr PISONI: Supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary.