2072. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Emergency Services; Corrective Services:
I refer to the Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) training developed for the department by the Telethon Kids Institute (TKI), and I ask:
(a) how many Youth Custodial staff are currently employed by the department; and
(b) how many of the staff from (a), have undertaken the TKI FASD training?
Hon Stephen Dawson replied:
HON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [10.03 pm]: I rise tonight to speak about parents with intellectual disability and their interaction with our child protection system. A number of individual matters have come to my attention over recent years, and I will indicate and comment on some disturbing trends. Parents with intellectual disability are treated unfairly within our child protection system. This issue has occurred across successive governments, so I certainly am not trying to point the finger at any particular government—it is a system-wide concern.
