House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-09-24 Daily Xml

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Child Protection

The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (15:14): Does the department have a protocol that, where there are multiple reportings from the one address or about the same child, that gets given priority for investigation? If not, why not?

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (15:14): That would depend on the nature of the notification. But, yes, when I was minister previously there was a protocol that I asked to be put in place so that, if there were high level tier notifications, they would not be treated as individual but assessed collectively. In Chloe Valentine's case it is incorrect to assert that there were not supports in place for that family. There were.