Ms. Mettam asks the Minister for Mental Health when the report from the ministerial task force into public mental health services for young people, established after Kate Savage's death, will be tabled and implemented. The Minister assures the report is outstanding, will go to cabinet imminently, and its recommendations will be implemented.

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22 February 2022
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MINISTERIAL TASKFORCE INTO PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH
SERVICES FOR INFANTS,CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AGED 0–18 YEARS IN
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
64. Ms L. METTAM to the Minister for Mental Health:
I refer to the ministerial task force into public mental
health services for infants, children and adolescents in WA that was
established following the review into the tragic death of Kate Savage. Given
that it was completed in November, when will the report be tabled and
implemented?

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First of all, I want to congratulate the members of the task
force on an outstanding report. It really is an outstanding report. It is a thorough, thoughtful,
well-put-together body of work by a task force led by Robyn Kruk and a ppointed
by former Minister for Mental Health Hon Roger Cook. It really is an
outstanding piece of work. It was provided to the government in November. We
have been working through the recommendations and it will go to cabinet
imminently and will be released shortly thereafter. I have written to members
of the task force thanking them for their work and committing to implementing
the recommendations and also to providing briefings to the parents of Kate Savage,
the Chief Psychiatrist and so on before it is publicly announced. That is the
appropriate process and that is the process that I will undertake. I am
absolutely committed to implementing the recommendations of that task force.

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