❓ Question seeks data on Legal Aid WA's provision of independent children's lawyers in gender affirmation treatment cases where parental consent is lacking. Answer provides aggregate data across financial years but cites confidentiality preventing further detail.
AnsweredQoN 1998Legislative Council
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How many individual children, who attended the Gender Diversity Service (Children and Adolescent Health Service), were provided an independent children’s lawyer by Legal Aid WA in situations
where one or more of the child’s parents or guardians did not consent to them undergoing gender affirmation treatment, for each of the following calendar years: (a) 2018; (b) 2019; (c) 2020; (d) 2021; (e) 2022; and (f) 2023?
where one or more of the child’s parents or guardians did not consent to them undergoing gender affirmation treatment, for each of the following calendar years: (a) 2018; (b) 2019; (c) 2020; (d) 2021; (e) 2022; and (f) 2023?
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Answered
16 May 2024
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General
Response time
8 days
(a)-(f): Between 2017/2018 and 2022/2023 Financial Years, Legal Aid WA provided 72 grants of legal assistance for an Independent Children’s Lawyer to represent a child in relation to a special medical procedure.
Further information is unable to provided due to confidentiality requirements under the Legal Aid Commission Act 1976 (WA).
Further information is unable to provided due to confidentiality requirements under the Legal Aid Commission Act 1976 (WA).
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