Statutes Amendment (Child Exploitation and Encrypted Material) Bill

The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: I speak today on behalf of the Dignity Party in support of this bill, which essentially gives police officers more powers to demand passwords and gain access to technological devices that they reasonably suspect contain material...

Professor Dr Freda Briggs

Adjourned debate on motion of Hon. K.L. Vincent: That this council— notes the passing on 6 April 2016 of child protection advocate, Emeritus Professor Dr Freda Briggs, AO; recognises the extraordinary body of work Dr Briggs undertook to become an...

Evidence from suspected abuse victims inadmissible due to SA Health ‘oversight’

Alina Eacott and Nick Harmsen | ABC News Recorded interviews with young children suspected to be victims of sexual or physical abuse are not able to be used as evidence in criminal trials because of a major bungle by the...

State Government scrambles to retrospectively fix a Health Department bungle

ABC Radio Adelaide | ABC North and West The State Government is scrambling to retrospectively fix a Health Department bungle that’s put recorded interviews with young abuse victims at risk. Under changes brought in last year Child Protection staff who’ve...

Child Abuse Report Line / Children with Disabilities

The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: Children with disabilities represent a higher proportion of children in care than the broader population. There are a range of reasons for this. In some cases, children have disabilities caused by abuse and neglect. In other instances,...

Kelly Vincent – ABC Radio Adelaide Interivew on protecting children with disabilities from abuse

Deb Tribe interviewing David Holst, Maurice Corcoran, Kelly Vincent and Peter Sandeman David Holst, Chair, Intellectual Disability Association of SA Deb Tribe: We have been talking to Linton Besser ahead of tonight’s program ‘Fighting the System’, about the abuse, both...

Open State Event on Child Protection Issues

The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking questions of the minister representing the Minister for Education and Child Development on the subject of Open State. Leave granted. The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: As part...

Comprehensive Child Protection Reforms Essential

Dignity for Disability MLC Kelly Vincent – Media release Comprehensive child protection reforms essential, says Dignity for Disability MP Dignity for Disability MP Kelly Vincent has today welcomed the public release of Royal Commissioner Margaret Nyland’s Child Protection Systems Royal...

Professor Dr Freda Briggs

The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: I move: That this council— Notes the passing on 6 April 2016 of child protection advocate, Emeritus Professor Dr Freda Briggs AO; Recognises the extraordinary body of work Dr Briggs undertook to become an expert in...

Child Protection

Adjourned debate on motion of Hon. S.G. Wade: That it be an instruction to the Select Committee on Statutory Child Protection and Care in South Australia that its terms of reference be amended by inserting the following additional term of...