Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate the answers. This is about trying to help make sure parents are exercising their responsibilities to try and get their kids to school. In an answer to a question of DEEWR during the committee inquiry about parents getting help to address some of these issues, because in many of these cases the parents will be aware that their kids are not getting to school and want to start dealing with that, DEEWR indicated that a person can seek support from Centrelink social workers at any time to help them with attendance issues. What is meant by ‘any time’? Does it have to apply to parents once notification has been made? Or, if parents are recognising it as an issue that they need help with, can they go to Centrelink at any time and not have to wait for notification?