Children and Youth

175. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:

I refer to the machinery-of-government changes, to my question without notice No. 128 asked on 25 May 2017, and the Minister’s response indicating that all machinery of government changes needed to be completed by 30 June 2017, and I ask:

(a) which prevention and diversion program will be transferred to the Department of Community Services;

(b) which stakeholders were consulted about the decision to transfer these programs;

HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [ 9.50 pm ]: I rise tonight to talk about some important research that has come out recently from the Telethon Kids Institute on which I was fortunate to receive a briefing and to go to the launch of last week. Some members may have had the opportunity during the dinner break to see the institute’s display on health and medical research upstairs. The research I am talking about was also briefly on display tonight. It is good to see that people are given the opportunity to be made aware of it.