CORONAVIRUS — MANDATORY VACCINATIONS —
CHILD PROTECTION
1142. Hon NICK GOIRAN to the parliamentary secretary representing the
Minister for Child Protection:
I refer to an article in The West
Australian of 7 December 2021 titled ''COVID-19 vaccination in WA:
Almost 2000 public servants face sack after refusing vaccination''.
(1) How many of the 1 939
unvaccinated workers are child protection workers?
(2) What measures is the department putting in place
to ensure that case loads do not exceed the recommended limit of 15,
notwithstanding that some caseworkers are facing the sack?
(3) How many caseworkers currently
have a case load in excess of 15?
Hon KYLE
McGINN replied:
On behalf of the parliamentary secretary,
I thank the member for some notice of the question. The following answer has
been provided by the Minister for Child Protection.
(1)–(2) I
have been advised that there is no impact to services and all workers captured
by the direction are required to comply.
(3) For the
current reporting period, the number of caseworkers holding case loads over the
recommended limit of 15, as per the monthly workload management report, was 81.