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

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Child Protection

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (15:06): My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Can the minister advise the house why it took correspondence from me to her office before a critical incident report lodged by a school in my electorate was finally followed up 20 days after the original incident was reported by that school?

The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for the Public Sector) (15:06): I won't, of course, be going into any detail about an individual case and an individual student. I am grateful that the member chose to contact a political office—I believe it was the Attorney-General's office, initially, and then it was passed to mine. I think that is entirely appropriate. I can assure the house that the incident has been addressed and that the circumstances are being managed appropriately. I will now be undertaking an analysis of whether things ought to have been done differently.