PREMIER Jay Weatherill has accused the previous Liberal government of intentionally hiding the crisis in South Australia's child protection system. For the second time in a week, Mr Weatherill made the claim to defend his own Government's record on child protection and cited sighted chronic under-resourcing until Labor came to power. He said that under previous governments child protection issues were "swept under the carpet." More: New twist in school sex scandal I was spoken to directly by the relevant person involved; she was approached by a senior public servant to excise the word 'crisis' from her reporting to government. She had, after she raised the matters, a co-ordinating body put over the top of her so her advice would not reach directly the relevant minister. The Government has been under intense scrutiny since it was revealed last October that parents at a western suburbs school had not been told about the rape of a young girl at the school by out-of-school-hours care worker Mark Christopher Harvey. This sparked a seven-month royal commission by former Supreme Court justice Bruce Debelle . In Parliament last week Mr Weatherill said the Layton review into child protection was commissioned because "we had a child protection system that was in crisis." "Not that that word was permitted to be used, because one of the advisers on a particular advisory panel to government told me that, when she tried to use that word, it was edited out of the reports to be given to the former government," he said. Mr Weatherill said that his office had made no attempt to influence the Education Department chief executive's decisions about any of the disciplinary matters involving department staff named in the Debelle report. More: Ministers won't answer parliamentary inquiry into Debelle report Comment: Debelle inquiry overshadows the Government More: Top dogs quit education after Debelle inquiry "Small businesses are often the backbone of local communities," he said. This cheque from the State Government will provide many small businesses an important cash flow boost. Opposition education spokesman David Pisoni said it was a desperate move by the Premier to use criticism of a previous government to defend the current government.