House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-05-06 Daily Xml

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Child Protection

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:19): A supplementary to that: is the minister suggesting to the house that she will come back to us within a time frame to give us an indication of how many of these safety plans are currently in existence?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector) (14:19): As I have indicated, I had previously taken that on notice, when I had been minister for two or three weeks, I think, so there is an answer on its way back because I took that on notice. What I am further indicating to you, as I am coming to understand the way in which the child protection system works and also the system that sits behind that in terms of the way in which information is stored and able to be accessed, is that it may be very difficult to see all of the safety plans in order to give a rigorous answer. What we can do is come back with an answer that is clearer about the practices and protocols that sit around that.