House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-05-21 Daily Xml

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Families SA Adverse Events Review Committee

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:04): My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Can the minister now provide to the house the answer to a question she took on notice on 8 May, and that is: has Families SA received any recommendations from the Adverse Events Review Committee in respect of any case as yet and, for each accepted recommendation, what action has been taken?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (15:04): I can confirm, obviously, that the Adverse Events Committee that has been in operation, I think since about 2004, of course has made recommendations to the department, but it has been operating for many years—10 years now—so I don't have the detail still of all of the recommendations. As I said, I will be checking as to whether this is a reasonable ask for the department to go through all of the recommendations that may have been made over the last 10 years and provide a report to the parliament. If it is possible within a reasonable time frame I will do it. If it's an unreasonable diversion of resources, I won't be doing it.