House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-10-16 Daily Xml

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Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:12): Supplementary, sir: is the minister advising the house that the father has not been made aware that his two-year-old girl was in the care of the Families SA worker charged with child sex abuse either face to face or in any other form of correspondence or telephone call?

The Hon. J.J. Snelling: The minister just said that.

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Health is called to order.

The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Education and Child Development) (14:12): No, if the Leader of the Opposition is asking me, have we spoken to the father, I did answer that question. If he is asking me now, have we made attempts to contact the father, yes, we have made numerous attempts by various means to make contact and have not been successful as yet. But we will continue to explore all avenues so that we can contact the father.