CHILD PROTECTION — REGISTERED CARERS
936. Hon NICK GOIRAN to the parliamentary secretary representing the
Minister for Child Protection:
I refer to the answer to my question
without notice 852 in which the parliamentary secretary informed the house —
All
child protection workers who take children home are screened to work with
vulnerable children via the Department of Communities' screening
processes, in addition to them holding a working with children check.
(1) On how many
occasions last month did a child protection worker take a child home or look
after them in a hotel or similar accommodation?
(2) When was the
last occasion the minister was briefed about this practice that the director
general described to the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial
Operations as ''not something that we encourage''?
Hon
SAMANTHA ROWE replied:
I thank the member for some notice
of the question and provide the following answer on behalf of the Minister for
Child Protection.
(1) This
information is not recorded centrally and would require manually reviewing all
individual case files for each interaction. Gathering this data would require
significant resources.
(2) The minister regularly meets
with the director general of the Department of Communities.