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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Child Protection

Mr TEAGUE (Heysen) (14:47): The Premier has just indicated that many of the children are already known to the department. If that's the case, why is it necessary to include that cohort in those on the receiving end of these rapid welfare checks?

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:47): That's an excellent question. Let me answer that by sticking to what is already in the public domain. With respect to the tragedies that we became aware of earlier in the year, these of course were children who were already known to the Department for Child Protection.

I don't think it is appropriate for the government to work on—well, I'm not allowing for a circumstance that we work on the basis of presumption, in that just because a child is already known to an organisation it immediately precludes them or excludes them from the possibility of being in a more difficult situation than the state knows about.

That is to say, to put it more succinctly, there is no harm in double and triple checking when we get the opportunity to do so. The 500 were identified through the Office for Data Analytics process in the Hyde review, so we take the view to check on all those children even if they have been known to the Department for Child Protection or DHS or any other agency previously.

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