child protection

Asylum seekers in detention - children's care

Date: 
15/03/2011

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3330. Hon Alison Xamon to the Minister for Child Protection


I refer to the care and protection of children and young people who are currently in detention centres or places of alternative detention on Christmas Island and Leonora, and ask —

Child Death Review - Implementation of recommendations motion (debate)

Date: 
14/10/2009

At-risk pregnant women - Department of Child Protection policy

Date: 
25/05/2010

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2384. Hon Alison Xamon to the Minister for Child Protection

I refer to the article on page 7 of the Sunday Times newspaper on 2 May 2010 entitled, ‘Unborn babies seized’, and ask —

(1) How many pregnant women are currently scrutinised under the new Department of Child Protection (DCP) policy, regarding at risk pregnant mothers described in the article?

Employment of Child Migrants (QON 1234)

Date: 
24/09/2009

I refer to the formal service agreements signed by employers of child migrants from at least the 1920’s. The service agreements usually indicated the children would be paid a wage, half in cash and half banked by Child Welfare to be held in trust until their 21st birthday, and I ask -

(1) Were any formal service agreements signed by non-Government institutions (for example, Bindoon or Castledare) as employers of child migrants?

(2) If yes to (1), please advise, -

(a) in what years the agreements were made;

(b) which institutions the agreements covered; and